Your starter for ten: which server maker once had a joint venture with Japan's Nippon Telegraph & Telephone (NTT) to build a data and speech communications hub, with the rather sexy code-name ‘Asparagus'?
Some clues: The year was 1987. The server maker in question was working with NTT on a communications hub built around its Eclipse MV minicomputer. Got it now?
Ok some more clues. The server firm was ultimately sold to EMC. CEO at the time was Ron Skates. Most famous engineer was Tom West, who was the subject of Tracy Kidder's bestseller The Soul of a New Machine...[click continue reading for more on the mystery server maker and project Asparagus!]...
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