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Conference 7.286::digital

Title:The Digital way of working
Moderator:QUARK::LIONELON
Created:Fri Feb 14 1986
Last Modified:Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:5321
Total number of notes:139771

183.0. "Royal visit" by BIOSYS::GSMITH (Graham Smith N.U.K. M.A.C.) Thu Sep 04 1986 08:58

    
    
    
    I was watching the news last night and there was a report about
    PC (he of Chas and Di fame) visiting Boston .
    
    While there he visited a 'high tecnology' company where some computer
    hardware and software was demonstrated .
    
    I think that one of the things demonstrated was a DECTalk.
    
    Can anyone tell me if he actually visited a DEC office or what ?
    
    Graham
    
    PS 
    I'm not really that interested , just curious .
    
    
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183.1Wang, not DECLEHIGH::MCKINLEYThu Sep 04 1986 10:174
    He visited Wang Labs in Lowell, Mass.  I doubt that they demonstrated
    DECTalk, probably they used the Wang equivalent.

    ---Phil
183.2It was Professional ImageESPN::HENDRICKSHolly HendricksThu Sep 04 1986 15:1820
    Check out today's Boston Globe p. 16 "Prince makes friends during
    busy day of tours".
    
    ' The prince, who was visiting Boston for the first time, began
    the day at Wang Laboratories in Lowell, where he met founder, chairman
    and chief executive officer An Wang.
    
    Employees demonstrated Wang's Professional Image computer, using
    a photograph that depicts Charles in second place in a steeplechase
    race.  The computer removed the image of the frontrunning horse
    and rider, thus showing the prince in first place.
    
    "That's the way to alter the course of history," Charles said. "I
    always wondered how newspapers did that".
    
    
    ...I understand that he chose to visit Lowell to talk about industrial
    solutions for depressed urban areas, and Lowell was chosen because
    it has a great deal in common with some of England's depressed urban
    cities.
183.3whoopsESPN::HENDRICKSHolly HendricksThu Sep 04 1986 15:202
    whoops, pardon the redundancy "urban cities", meant to say urban
    *areas*...
183.4Harvard's son: An WangELWOOD::MCCARRENThu Sep 04 1986 18:035
    One other possible explanation, besides the Lowell renewal project,
    is the long connection between Harvard and An Wang. Seems logical,
    anyway....
    
    Ed
183.5Wang's new plant in ScotlandGALLO::AMARTINAlan H. MartinThu Sep 04 1986 21:085
It was claimed on Ch4 WBZ-TV's news that the Prince wanted to visit
Wang because Wang had recently opened a plant in Scotland.

Is it bigger than Digital's plant in Ayr?
				/AHM
183.6COVERT::COVERTJohn CovertFri Sep 05 1986 09:075
There's not a chance Wang's plant is bigger than Ayr.

BTW, DEC has more employees at DECpark, Reading, than WANG has in all of Europe.

/john
183.7EKLV00::OFARRELLClonmel DTN 826-2230Sun Sep 21 1986 15:5512
    The Wang plant in Sterling, Scotland is not bigger than DEC's in
    Ayr, however, Prince Charles, did open the Sterling plant while
    George Younger, the current minister of defence in the UK, opened
    the Ayr plant.  
    
    If he was looking for an inner city renewal project is not what
    DEC has done with the Boston plant much better than any Wang example
    
    Dia dhuit,
    
    Willie O Farrell
    
183.8More Than OneNAC::DENSMOREget to the verbsMon Sep 22 1986 09:005
    re .7
    
    Also Springfield MA.
    
    					Mike
183.9PC Also at Dana FarberBM1GSG::GROLLMANGSG Systems EngineeringThu Sep 25 1986 19:207
PC visited the Dana Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. They are a fairly 
large DEC shop. I have no idea of what was actually demonstrated, but the 
employees in the laboratory areas (blood, etc.) were told to dress 
appropriately. The labs are automated with DEC and HP equipment, but all 
the record keeping is on a cluster.

Regards, Ira Grollman (GSG Systems Engineering)