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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

500.0. "Isn't DEC part of the miracle?" by MOMAX1::GREENO (It's all done with mirrors.) Mon Mar 21 1988 12:32

	  There is a special advertising section in last weeks Business
	Week that is of interest in that DEC is very much missing.
	It is "The Spirit and the Miracle" of Massachusetts. There
	are mentions of many of the better known Mass companies,
	Prime, Raytheon, Wang, John Hancock, Gillette...(and others)
	but no DEC.

	  Did I miss something? Last I knew we where still based
	in Mass.

	(Actually it looks well planned to push the "Duke" miracle)
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500.1DEC...WINERY::BOUCHARKEMon Mar 21 1988 16:312
    I didn't see that article,but I'd say that whoever's responsible
    for leaving out DEC should be un-employed.
500.2That explains itJETSAM::EYRINGThu Apr 28 1988 13:543
    Haven't you heard, the Duke doesn't much like DEC!
    
    
500.3Duke Uses a VAXJENEVR::TUSIAThis space intentionally leftFri Apr 29 1988 15:064
In last weeks Boston Globe there was a article on the  Duke's delegate 
    tracking committee. Guess what kind of computer system they use.
     A VAX 750.
    
500.4Coming soon: the Cray PCSMURF::REEVESJon Reeves, ULTRIX compiler groupFri Apr 29 1988 19:412
    Yes, but do you trust a reporter that identifies the 11/750 as a
    "superminicomputer"?
500.5QUARK::LIONELWe all live in a yellow subroutineFri Apr 29 1988 21:326
    Re: .4
    
    What's the complaint?  That term has been standard for the VAX-class
    family for years.  Not to be confused with "minisupercomputer".
    
    				Steve
500.6Hidden by moderator - ACT2VOYAGE::JWHITTAKERMon May 02 1988 11:287
500.7See BETHE::SOAPBOX_1988 171 for more on the DUKEHPSCAD::FORTMILLEREd Fortmiller, MRO1-1, 297-4160Mon May 02 1988 12:321
    
500.8ATLANT::SCHMIDTMon May 02 1988 13:265
  Since it is *OBVIOUSLY* inappropriate to respond to 500.6 (containing
  one Noter's personal opinions on Mike Dukakis and his contribution to
  the "Massachusetts Miracle"), might I ask that the moderators hide it?

                                   Atlant
500.9How quickly things changeSMURF::REEVESJon Reeves, ULTRIX compiler groupTue May 03 1988 19:229
    Re my last (.4?):
    
    OK, I take that back; maybe it's just because an 11/750 seems such
    a weakling by today's standards, or maybe it's because I was getting
    my minisupers and superminis confused.  I guess the term must date
    to when the 750 was new and truly was super by those standards.
    
    FWIW: The Computer Museum uses the same term to describe their 750
    (in a publication that doesn't mention their 11/780 or Sequent 8000).
500.10FIDDLE::LAVOIEYou want two hundred dollars for what?Wed May 04 1988 09:355
    Oneof the peopple on his campaign staff was interviewed about a
    week ago and sitting in full view in the background was nothing
    other than a VT100. :-)                 
            
            			Debbi
500.11DEC's in there!ATLAST::BOUKNIGHTW. Jack BouknightWed May 04 1988 23:194
    VT100's are still going well .... our local weather man's "stage"
    contains both a VT100 and a VT220 in the background ....
    
    jack
500.12All VT1xx look alike :-)CVG::THOMPSONLet's move Engineering to FloridaThu May 05 1988 12:385
    My guess is that the VT100 is a VT125. There is probably a color
    monitor nearby as well. The VT125 is a bit faster form graphics
    (which weather men like) then the VT24x.
    
    			Alfred
500.13Popular in newsrooms ...AUSTIN::UNLANDSic Biscuitus DisintegratumThu May 05 1988 16:186
    As far as television goes, has anyone noticed the scads of VT220's
    and VT241's in the background of the news studio at CNN?  It looks
    like Turner Broadcasting is a major customer ...
    
    Geoff
    
500.14AXEL::FOLEYRebel without a ClueThu May 05 1988 19:015
       
       
       	And NBC....
       
       						mike
500.15COVERT::COVERTJohn R. CovertFri May 06 1988 01:238
>has anyone noticed the scads of VT220's and VT241's in the background of the
>news studio at CNN?

Take a look at the mock keyboard on the wall -- CIT (who makes the CIT220, a
terminal hard to tell from a VT220 from a distance) made some of the changes
many people asked for on the LK201, and the mock-up has those changes.

/john