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Name | Date | Lines |
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| 471.1 | | TOPDOC::AHERN | Dennis the Menace | Mon Jun 27 1994 16:28 | 6 |
| Many Lost Options?
Maynard Look Out?
Mill, Large, Office?
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| 471.2 | A little site code history | SARSEN::PCLX31::satow | gavel::satow, dtn 223-2584 | Tue Jun 28 1994 09:29 | 14 |
| It's not an acronym.
The "ML" part was an abbreviation for "Mill". When the number of Digital
locations became too large for two letter site codes, the letter "O" (I
believe it was picked arbitrarily) was added to all of the existing site
codes. That's why most of the site codes end in "O" and why you may hear
some old timers refer to "ML5" or "PK3".
Of somewhat more interest is the site code "MSO". The "MS" part is an
acronym (actually, to be more precise, an initialism) for "Maynard Scott"
because the prior occupant of MSO was H.H. Scott, a manufacturer of high
quality stereo components.
Clay
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| 471.3 | More site code history | 39702::LITTLEFIELD | | Tue Jun 28 1994 14:29 | 7 |
| But, MSO was originally PMR (I believe) for Powdermill Road. Before
that we just referred to it as the Scott building.
Some of us, at the time they added the extra o's, were glad to see that
the Boston plant was BOO and not it's previous two-letter designation!!
;^)
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| 471.4 | | TOOK::MORRISON | Bob M. LKG1-3/A11 226-7570 | Tue Nov 08 1994 17:54 | 12 |
| > But, MSO was originally PMR (I believe) for Powdermill Road. Before
I don't think Digital ever had three-letter site codes before the codes
were all converted to three-letter around 1982. The building itself was some-
times called PMR, and interoffice mail addressed to PMR might have arrived
simply because the mailroom clerks were smart enough to figure it out. But it
was not a site code as such.
> that we just referred to it as the Scott building.
Ah, the good old days. My first job in Digital (in Oct. 1977) was in a group
that had moved out of the "Scott building" 6 months earlier.
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| 471.5 | Scott's was MS | MSBCS::GALVIN | R.T. Galvin, PKO2 223-2625 | Thu Nov 10 1994 09:53 | 17 |
| Bob, the your first job was in WOO, right?
I was in that group that moved from Scott's in April 1977. And to get
back to the acronym question.....Scott's became PMR after we had
vacated, and a complete overhaul had been done. You should have seen
the place when SR17 was there. There are a few of us still around, and
there are many great stories to go with that old building. Anyway,
back to my point. When we were in Scott's, the Purchase Order prefix
was MS. Remember back in the old days when every facility had a
purchasing group, the P/O's had building or group related prefixes.
Scott's was MS, and I believe MCS in Dascomb Rd. (the home of SR17)
still uses the prefix today.
Still remember the flag football games on the receiving dock every
Friday.
TG
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