Milestones

1989

• Advanced storage subsystems developed for IBM System/38 and AS/400 computers.
• Orion, a solid-state mainframe storage system, unveiled.

1988

• European manufacturing facility in Cork, Ireland opens.
• Cache controllers offered for Wang VS computers.
• Stock listed on the New York Stock Exchange.

1987

• EMC split-capability controllers increase IBM midrange disk subsystem performance.
• Headquarters moves to South Street, Hopkinton, Massachusetts.

1986

• EMC goes public on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
• EMC memory doubles capacity of Hewlett Packard 3000 computers.

1985

• First to ship memory upgrades using 1 megabit random access memory (RAM).

1983

• Headquarters moves to Natick, Massachusetts.

1981

• 64-kilobyte chip memory boards developed for Prime computers.

1979

• EMC founded by Richard J. Egan and Roger Marino in Newton, Massachusetts.