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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

3325.0. "Woodstock_94 != DECstock_94" by SMURF::MANDELL () Fri Aug 12 1994 10:20

    
    This is weekend of Woodstock '94 and we are being bombarded
    with charts, photos, reminiscences, etc comparing the current
    version to the original in '69.
    
    Well, for most of us DECstock is closer to home than Woodstock.
    Does anyone out there have any info on what DECstock was doing
    in Aug, '69? Any other ideas come to mind about how this
    company has changed in the past 1/4 century. I'll bet there
    are more tie-dyes today than there were in '69, but I'd be
    real interested in hearing from the rest of the community.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
3325.1		AXEL::FOLEY	Rebel without a Clue	`Fri Aug 12 1994 10:34`	11
	Yea, that's it.. This past few years in DEC has just been a bad acid trip! Hey man, I've got Alpha's using my brain as a waterbed and check it out, Bob Palmer's hair is talking to me... Peace, love, and profits, mike
3325.2	A thought not worth too much thinking...	HYDRA::BECK	Paul Beck	`Fri Aug 12 1994 10:43`	4
	re .1 You mean, we may wake up one morning and there's Ken Olsen stepping out of the shower, a la Dallas?
3325.3	RE: .2	PNEUMA::NORMAN		`Fri Aug 12 1994 10:45`	1
	Now that's one scary image.....
3325.4	But I have some work to do and can't type it in now	COVERT::COVERT	John R. Covert	`Fri Aug 12 1994 11:22`	4
	Probably the best description of DEC in 1969 is on p.57 of the now-classic "Computer Lib" by Theodor H. Nelson. (He wrote it in 1974.)
3325.5	Computer Lib	SULACO::JUDICE	May fortune favor the foolish...	`Fri Aug 12 1994 11:52`	15
	re: -.1 I agree. Ted Nelson's book got me interested in computing - and in DEC. I seem to remember his line about DEC vs. IBM was something like IBM is to DEC what Kodak is to Nikon. Of course, Nelson's crazy hypertext/Xanadu ideas are finally blooming with things like MOSAIC.... I met Ted Nelson 2 times, and he was quite an interesting character. Incidentally, his mother was actress Celeste Holmes. /ljj
3325.6		MILPND::CLARK_D		`Fri Aug 12 1994 12:48`	7
	In May of '69, Digital Stock split three-for-one. (Taken from the book, Digital at Work - Snapshots from the first 35 year) - a great book to have in my opinion. Dianne
3325.7	TFiShOOOO	SSDEVO::KELSEY		`Fri Aug 12 1994 14:53`	10
	well, in keeping with the spirit of the anniversary, we should all gather at the flagpoles after lunch, and GIMME AN F etc. -bk
3325.8	"U"	ANARKY::BREWER	nevermind....	`Fri Aug 12 1994 18:33`	2
	... ..... gimmie a "U"
3325.9	"C"	WELCLU::SHARKEYA	Lunch happens - separately	`Sat Aug 13 1994 05:36`	2
	......... gimmie a "C"
3325.10		QUARK::LIONEL	Free advice is worth every cent	`Sat Aug 13 1994 09:58`	3
	We'll leave the rest to people's imagination (and memory)... Steve