Conference 7.286::digital

  - The view from Peter Conklin's old office -- High atop building 5,
    just to the left of the smokestack.

  - The view back towards the Mill from the road bridge across the
    pond, where Ken Olsen stood a few years ago for Business 
    Week, with the mill a 'ways back in the background.

  - The old generator.  Bring some creative lighting.

  - Building 1 from across the pond as the sun sets and reflects 
    from the windows and/or the pond.

  - The clock tower, of course!

                                   Atlant

    I'm not a disinterested party with this suggestion, but if you want
    a high-tech look in an antique setting, the workstations marketing
    group in 1-2 overlooking the pond has zillions of VAXstations with
    big 19" color monitors. They could be showing elaborate engineering
    drawings, solid 3-d objects, etc. It makes a nice juxtaposition
    with the beams and old brick walls.
    
    DC

     AM,
     
     If it doesn't have the Mill Clocktower, it isn't the Mill!
     
     How about a "fisheye" view of the Corporate Lobby, with the original
     Mill bobbins and sewing implements in the corner of this new lobby?
     

Don't forget Ann, the Main St. receptionist who seems to know everyone
by name.

Also, the manufacturing group on 5-4.

And, of course, the view out of the window in my office of the dumpsters
between building 1 and 3.

Martin.

re .-1

>    And, of course, the view out of the window in my office of the dumpsters
>    between building 1 and 3.

     Enough complaining, Martin, or we'll send you back down to Dectalk
        land... Where windows would only show you the mud etc on the
        bottom of the pond...
        
        :-) q
        

They were photographing in the Main St. lobby this afternoon.  Dunno whether
Ann will be in the picture.

Didn't see anyone checking out the dumpsters, though.

Martin.

Does anyone know how many buildings make up the Mill?
I know of 23 buildings, but are there more?

I need the info. for a caption.

AM_

Ann-Marie:

  It's a little arbitrary, depending upon how you count.

  Here are the ones I can think of:

                     11

                             6A, 6B, 6C
                     8

      ??  ??   12   10
                           7
                    3              4

       21      1

                     5


  Notably missing from my list are the disconnected buildings, of 
  which 23 is one, and the powerhouse.  So, at least 13 + ? + 1.

                                   Atlant

    The Mill buildings are numbered 1 - 12, 22,23
    
    

    You may want to give the Plant Facilities Manager a call.  He/She
    could tell you how many buldings, square feet, etc...
    
    
    			Debbi

    My map of the mill contains the following buildings:
    
    1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6a, 6b, 6c, 6d, 7, 7a, 8, 8a, 10, 11, 12, 21, 22,
    23, 'boiler house'.
    
    There appears to be no building 9.

    re: .11  Well MY map shows 9,14,15,16,17,18,19, and 20 - so there!
    
    	Rick
    	Merrill
    

Building 23 is really building 20.  When it was converted from retail
space several years ago and DEC groups moved back in, there
was confusion in referring to building/floor locations like 20-1 and 20-2 
(spoken as twenty one and twenty two).
Building 21 is across from 20, and the isolated building in front 
of the Mill Yard is known 22, so building 20 was renamed.
Buildings 13 through 17(?) were also across from 21, where the in-yard
parking (used to be three deep parking) is now.

collected trivia....

There are two maps of the Mill in common use. I have both of them. One is hand-
drawn (more than 10 years old) and has the old numbers (#20, and two no-number
buildings). The other one was drawn on a graphics system, is about 5 years old,
and shows the boiler house as #9, disconnected buildings as 22 & 23.
  I always wondered where buildings 13-19 were. Were they all in the space be-
tween the mill pond and Main St. west of bldg. 21?

> < Note 498.14 by ANGORA::MORRISON "Bob M. LMO2/P41 296-5357" >
>  I always wondered where buildings 13-19 were. Were they all in the space be-
> tween the mill pond and Main St. west of bldg. 21?

Buildings 13-19 (not 17 as I reported earlier) were a set of rather narrow
but apparently tall buildings between building 21 and Main Street.
The retaining wall at the back of the Mill Yard parking lot is the remnant
of their foundation.
I've seen a map that shows building 9 between building 7 and 10,
in what is now the inner yard bounded by building 3, 7, 8, and 10.
What is now known as building 22, the isolated building on Main St.
near building 12, was unnumbered, and there was a building 22 on the other
side of Walnut St., where the Walnut St. parking lot is now.

What I haven't found out is when the buildings were numbered.
It was certainly not chronologically, since building 1 is the newest,
and parts of building 3 are the oldest.
Any takers on that questions?

- tom]

    
    
    There is/was a rumor floating around that the rooming house across
    the street from the Bldg.21 parking lot used to be one of the original
    mill buildings.(yes, that big blue thing next to the hardware store)
     

Enough Dec people have lived in Rosie's that it really ought to have a
building number.

What I've heard, though, is that the Mill offices are in the large house
directly opposite the Main St. entrance on the corner of Main St and, I
think, Florida Ave. This building is undergoing roof repairs right now
and houses several offices.

Martin.
survived Rosie's Oct-Nov 1972.
     

    If you want complete accuracy on the Mill, how many buildings, floors
    and sq. feet get hold of Jeanne Gay in the Mill.  Jeanne has done
    all the research for all the conf. rooms.  To my knowledge no one
    knows the Mill (including KO) as well as Jeanne. Don't tell her
    I told you.

Re.17

	Martin,

	It seems to me that St. Bridgets school has at least as
	much claim to a building number as does Rosies.

	Since I was a customer in '72, I stayed a HoJos rather
	than Rosie's. But I can still remember wading through
	the unpaved end of the parking lot to my DOS-11 course.

	And that Saturday I got snuck into the Mill to use V5!
	Come to think of it, maybe that's how I ended up here
	for real in '74.

	Jim
< Note 498.17 by BOLT::MINOW "Je suis marxiste, tendance Groucho" >
                            -< Memories of Rosie's >-

Enough Dec people have lived in Rosie's that it really ought to have a
building number.

What I've heard, though, is that the Mill offices are in the large house
directly opposite the Main St. entrance on the corner of Main St and, I
think, Florida Ave. This building is undergoing roof repairs right now
and houses several offices.

Martin.
survived Rosie's Oct-Nov 1972.
     

    
    RE .17 Rosie's.
    
    I wasn't sure if there were people who would recognize the name
    and connotation that's why I didn't use it.  
    
    I never stayed there but I had friends that did. It was fun to only
    be able to pour half a cup of coffee so ti wouldn't spill over the
    edge. The floors were so uneven that nothing was level. chairs wobbled,
    tables tilted, beds rocked. things moved without human intervention,
    and the list goes on according to many. 8*)
    
    
    

    The only place water could run uphill!
    
  

    If we are talking about the same place, I'm pretty sure that Rosie's is
    actually an old row-house, common low-rent worker housing for mills the
    age of ours.  You can find them all over the place in Mass., generally
    about a block or two from the mill itself.
    
    Rosie's appears to the untrained eye to date back to about the right
    period.  The post and beam problem that you see happening in building
    three is what Rosie's has in spades.  Rosie's is right on the river
    bank.  The basement was a real trip.  I went down there once.....
    
    	Eirikur (veteran of 1980)