| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
|---|
| 3793.1 | It's news to me.... | ANGLIN::BJAMES | I feel the need, the need for SPEED | Wed Apr 05 1995 18:36 | 4 |
| No I don't and I'm interested in hearing about what this tool can
indeed do, please elaborate.....
Mav
|
| 3793.2 | Considering EOL planning for XCS/XSEL/XCON | EICMFG::AJK | Anton J. Kuchelmeister, @PCS | Thu Apr 06 1995 03:35 | 4 |
| I would think that now with the imminent retirement/EOL of
XCS/XSEL/XCON an alternative way to get help and support
for configurations could be/is (?) the Golden Eggs manual.
|
| 3793.3 | | BIGUN::BAKER | Digital IS a software Company | Thu Apr 06 1995 03:59 | 16 |
| Matti,
the Golden Eggs are a great visual tool and you should be congratulated
for them. I believe that all people who configure Digital hardware
products, whether for sale or otherwise should investigate whether this
tool can help them.
We have a superb competitive tool here,
Now if the same could be done for our software....
Regards,
John
|
| 3793.4 | Ok, I'll bite: what are you talking about? | ALPHAZ::HARNEY | John A Harney | Thu Apr 06 1995 18:37 | 7 |
|
Has anybody thought about describing the name, "golden eggs"?
It's hard to get enthusiastic when you can't even figure out what
the subject matter is.
\john
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| 3793.5 | I've seen it, and I admire it | RT128::KENAH | Do we have any peanut butter? | Thu Apr 06 1995 18:44 | 11 |
| Golden Eggs is a hardware configuration tool -- in the past few years,
Digital has talked about creating a number of hardware configuration
tools to help Sales, Sales Support, etc.
While Golden Eggs is rather simple, and is only text based, it has
one decided advantage over every other hardware configuration tool
that has been looked at: it's real, it's functional, and it helps.
All the others were either vaporware, or lost their funding.
andrew
|
| 3793.6 | ;-) | PCBUOA::KRATZ | | Thu Apr 06 1995 18:57 | 1 |
| Thanks for descrambling the name.
|
| 3793.7 | golden eggs == something of value, no? | MAZE::FUSCI | DEC has it (on backorder) NOW! | Thu Apr 06 1995 20:29 | 8 |
| re: .6
> Thanks for descrambling the name.
I suppose I could be wrong, but you've never heard the story about killing
the goose that lays the golden eggs?
Ray
|
| 3793.8 | Also available via VTX IR | BRUMMY::WALLACE_J | Whatever it takes *who* ? | Fri Apr 07 1995 07:48 | 11 |
| I've seen it, and I admire it (and the perseverance of the "team" that
produce it) too.
It isn't text-based (e.g. the SOC is text-based), it is PICTORIAL. A
picture is worth two thousand bytes (or more) of text.
Take alook, and ask yourself why we have to rely on the goodwill of a
small number of individuals to produce stuff like this.
regards
john
|
| 3793.9 | Can this be Maintained? | WRKSYS::MACDONALD | | Fri Apr 07 1995 10:43 | 7 |
| Sounds interesting. What level of effort will be required to maintian
this, and is there a commitment to do so?? Having been involved in
early XSEL/XCON days, I know the problems to be formidable--though they
have changed considerably over time. There's still a high level of base
complexity, and a high degree of volatility in the data.
Bruce
|
| 3793.10 | | RT128::KENAH | Do we have any peanut butter? | Fri Apr 07 1995 12:08 | 8 |
| >It isn't text-based (e.g. the SOC is text-based), it is PICTORIAL. A
>picture is worth two thousand bytes (or more) of text.
Agreed -- I meant to say paper-based. I mention this to contrast it to
many of the other contenders, which were online (mostly PC-based)
tools. Of course, paper-based pictures are much more valuable to
online vaporware. It's a good tool. Kudos to the maintainers for
their dedication, and perseverance.
|
| 3793.11 | Hard Copies available | EEMELI::PATARI | | Fri Apr 07 1995 15:25 | 38 |
| Hi!
GOLDEN EGGS Visual Configurations are back again.
After several delays I finally managed to put together a fresh
configuration album for our SELLING forces.
PLEASE NOTE::::
At this moment GOLDEN EGGS is available in Hard Copy only.
This is the only way to get FUNDING for this important project.
The project team for GOLDEN EGGS is total 0.2 (zero point 2) Man!!!!
Please Order now Hard Copies for your Selling forces:
Digital Sales, MCS and PARTNERS
GOLDEN EGGS Visual Configuration guide Rev 20 Ordering gate is open!
Send your kind volume order to:
MATTI PATARI at FNO
Booklet order number: EC-R020B-36
Price $10/Copy
Minimum order 50 copies , One Box.
Please place your order with shipping details:
- Your CC
- Your CC managers name
- Number of copies ordered ( 50 is minimum)
- Accurate Digital shipping STREET address.
( No Box, include your Country name too)
Thank You for your kind order!
Matti Patari
Sales Support in Helsinki,Finland
Spirit of GOLDEN EGGS
|
| 3793.12 | | EEMELI::BACKSTROM | bwk,pjp;SwTools;pg2;lines23-24 | Sat Apr 08 1995 17:25 | 8 |
| Re: .11
Matti, even if you're not willing to put up all of Golden Eggs on
the net at the moment, put up at least a couple of "teaser" pages
of popular systems so that seeing them wants one to get the rest
too. :-)
...petri
|
| 3793.13 | $500 to play? | SMOKN::MEAGHER | Cube with a view of the blues .. | Sun Apr 09 1995 14:10 | 19 |
| I found the announcement on VTX IR, which stated that each page of
Golden Eggs was available from IR via Postscript -- however there
were no pointers to these pages.
Given the state of change in our offerings, the hardcopy nature of the
guide, the lack of ability to select just the system(s) in which one
is interested, and the $500 minimum order for hardcopy guides (50x$10)
it would be difficult to justify to my manager right now.
While I can appreciate the effort in producing Golden Eggs and would
certainly like to fund the value added effort by participating, this
method of distribution needs some work, IMHO.
The same reason the SOC is now on-line for each system -- it is fresh,
up-to-date, and atomic. Perhaps the Golden Eggs can be made available
in the same fashion.
/Kent
Sales Support - Phoenix
|
| 3793.14 | Golden Eggs via WWW | STOWKS::PBROUWER | Peter Brouwer | Mon Apr 10 1995 07:03 | 18 |
| Matti,
Golden Eggs are great and it is a pitty that is does not have corporate
attention for more funding.
I would like to ask if there are any plans of bringing Golden Eggs under WWW.
It would mean that all info is kept up to date at a central place and giving
it access to all who need it in the company.
By making 'clickable maps' one could make technical info, order info
available by clicking on the item.
I just read the amount of time/manpower available, which gives me little
hope. It would really make life a lot easier.
Regards, Peter Brouwer \\\//
[email protected] (0 0)
-----------------------------------oOO--(_)--OOo----------------------------
# Digital Equipment B.V. / European Storage Engineering,
# DIGITAL : JGO::PBROUWER,889-9174 \ BLD B2/21A P.O.Box 6774,
# PHONE:[+31][0]80 52 ext 9174,fax 9696 6503GG Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
|
| 3793.15 | Beware cable lengths ! | RDGENG::RANDALL | | Mon Apr 10 1995 11:01 | 66 |
| Hi,
I'm a contract employee, not permanent; I've only been working within DEC for
1 month or so, but I've just seen your "Golden Eggs" document and I think it's
excellent.
One point I would like to make which maybe you need to correct though :
In our group we have an Alpha AXP 2300, with an external BA350 StorageWorks
expansion tower. This contains 2 RZ28 disks; Inside the 2300 main box are 2
other disks, a DAT tape drive, and a CDROM. Altogether 6 SCSI devices, plus
the controller card = 7, the maximum allowed on SCSI.
Now the Adaptec 1742 SCSI controller on this machine is a FAST SCSI controller,
this means that the SCSI spec must be adhered to very carefully.
In the BA350 manual it states that the MAXIMUM length of the SCSI bus is 3.0
metres, from the terminator inside the 2300, to the terminator inside the
BA350. We set the system up, using a BN21H-02 cable (a 2 metre cable). The
length of the SCSI bus inside the BA350 is 0.9 metres. That makes 2.9 metres
of EXTERNAL cabling ... plus whatever is inside the 2300 - maybe 60 cm. A
total of 3.5 metres, over the spec. length, although not by much.
We had big problems when we started using the external disks on the BA350. The
O/S would grind to a halt, and lots of SCSI CAM errors were logged. We thought
that perhaps one of the (new) RZ28 disks was faulty. Tech. support gave us
excellent help, and suggested that the overall length of our SCSI bus was the
cause of all the problems - Adaptec 1742 controllers are notoriously fussy on
this. We connected a BN21H-01 (1 metre) cable between the 2300 and the BA350,
and the system has been faultless since.
So please ... do not specify the BN21H-02 between the 2300 and the BA350,
specify a BN21H-01 ! It will prevent lots of customer problems ! The end result
is not all that pretty - it is necessary to stand the BA350 back-to-front alongside
the 2300 box, so that the cable will reach. But at least it works that way !
It may be possible to use a BN21H-1E ... but we havn't tried that, and the overall
length may once again be marginal.
Alternatively, it IS possible to use the BN21H-02 cable ... IF you install a
SECOND Adaptec 1742 SCSI controller card in the 2300. There are then 2
separate SCSI busses, and each can be up to 3 metres long.
I hope this infomation is useful to you, I'd not like other people to have the
problems that we did, they cost us a fair bit of time, and are easy to avoid
when you know about the importance of staying within the SCSI spec !
We had a lot of difficulty finding out exactly WHAT cables are available when
trying to solve this problem - and what their part numbers are. Now I've seen
"Golden Eggs" I think it could have saved us quite a bit of trouble, as they are
all there, neatly displayed on the back page.
I think the idea of a WWW version of this document is fantastically powerful, it
could be kept perfectly up to date, and everyone would have access to it.
Plus it might save a few trees.
regards,
Ed Randall
----------------------------------------------------------------------
Ed Randall Digital Equipment Co.Ltd., Worton Grange, Reading
DECnet : RDGENG::RANDALL Internal phone : 7-830-4712
Internet : [email protected] Telephone: (01734) 204712
----------------------------------------------------------------------
|
| 3793.16 | New page for Hard Copy is On-line | EEMELI::PATARI | | Mon Apr 10 1995 14:21 | 23 |
| Hello
This is a Fresh GOLDEN EGGS User Bulletin from today.
It is about one new page, AlphaStation 250 4/266 that is available On-line.
...........................................................................
Aihe: I: GOLDEN AlphaStation 250 4/266 On-line
Hi!
One new page for GOLDEN EGGS Rev20 is On-line at our Helsinki host:
HSKAPL::SYS$PUBLIC:[ANU]GOLDaw2504266a.ps
This is AlphaStation 250 4/266.
Please Spool copy this PostScript Page to update your Rev20 Hard Copy.
Have a good start for your Alpha business of Q4!!
Matti
Jakelu:(distribution deleted)
|
| 3793.17 | Example of WWW for 250 | EEMELI::PATARI | | Tue Apr 11 1995 12:19 | 36 |
| Hello
Please find attached Jari's mail showing WWW pointer for
GOLDEN EGGS AlphaServer 250 4/266 page.
Matti
______________________________
From: NAMIX::jpt "Jari Tavi 11-Apr-1995 0910" 11-APR-1995 09:10:54.94
To: patari@dec:.fno.eemeli
CC:
Subj: Re: I: GOLDEN AlphaStation 250 4/266 On-line
Matti,
GOLDEN EGGS page for AlphaStation 250 4/266 can be also reached through
world famous WWW using any WWW client (Mosaic, Netscape or Lynx for example).
Accesspoint for this information is:
http://viima.fno.dec.com/
New AlphaStation systems
-> AlphaStation 250 4/266
or more directly:
http://viima.fno.dec.com/Digital/AlphaStations.html
If your client doesn't have PostScript viewer, you must load the file to
local disk and print it to view its contents.
Best regards,
-jari
|
| 3793.18 | GOLDEN EGGS are Too Good!! | EEMELI::PATARI | | Tue Apr 11 1995 13:09 | 13 |
| This is interesting,
I just received a phone call from one of our major resellers in UK.
We had a nice talk about GOLDEN EGGS booklet. How it supports
reseller's daily work etc..
Then I made a proporsal him to get more booklets for his own Customers.
No way, he wants to keep that single copy for his own use?
How come?
Why not give this good ORDERING tool to customers, NO!
??
Why to hide our good products from money?
Matti
|
| 3793.19 | can you send me an additional 50? | TENNIS::KAM | Kam USDS (714)261-4133 (DTN 535) IVO | Tue Apr 11 1995 13:32 | 15 |
| We ordered 2000 copies for the next quarterly Business Partner
Training, starting 17 April 1995. The Business Partners got wind of it
and I had to order 100 for immediate distribution to the support
centers. I'm going to have to order an additional 50.
Business Partners are reluctant to give this to customers because then
they wouldn't have a copy for themselves. Hopefully this distribution
will make more available to Business Partners and Customers.
Definitely a value-added tool that the Business Partners look forward
to using.
Regards,
kam
|
| 3793.20 | 50 copies upp in the Air! | EEMELI::PATARI | | Tue Apr 11 1995 13:50 | 7 |
| Hei Kam,
Thanks for your kind order for 50 more copies of GOLDEN EGGS.
Early to morrow morning we will get your copies upp in the Air.
You will receive them late this week.
Oh Boys, it's sellin season here upp in the Tundra.
Matti
|
| 3793.21 | A World Wide 0.2 Man Enterprise... | HLDE01::VUURBOOM_R | Roelof Vuurboom @ APD, DTN 829 4066 | Tue Apr 11 1995 15:52 | 5 |
| Well, well, well, note 3793 has now become the home of
Golden Egg Enterprises :-). Business on the 3793...
|
| 3793.22 | Great Job - More Questions | GLDOA::CUTLER | | Wed Apr 12 1995 15:32 | 30 |
|
Matti,
Just pulled the AlphaStation 250 4/266 "Golden Eggs" sheet that
was out on the Web. I'm impressed, so were the sales account reps
I showed it to. Good job, how can we the field make "Corporate" aware
so as to "push" them into providing some type of "offical" support for
your efforts. I see this as a "tremendous" improvement over the tools
that everyone is using today. It was creative, well thought out and
will help in many ways. One of the biggest benefits I see is the
reduction of time (big reduction) to put together a configuration and
possibly a reduction in the number of configuration errors that are the
result of missing something. I have two questions (these were
generated by the people I spoke too).
1) Do your GOLDEN EGGS cover all of the Digital Hardware products?
2) Once we place an order for these, are there some provisions for an
update service (for new products)? How soon are GOLDEN EGGS sheets
available for new products?
That's it. Once again, GREAT JOB!
Rick C.
Ford PTO Sales Support
|
| 3793.23 | GOLDEN EGGS, fight for DEC Jobs! | EEMELI::PATARI | | Wed Apr 12 1995 17:49 | 284 |
| Hi Ric
Two short answer to your questions.
1. Does it cover all products?
Almost: all Alphas, VAXses and Storage what are needed in ABU / SBU sales.
2. New sheets from new products?
At the printing time, 6-Mar-1995, GOLDEN EGGS contained all new systems,
which were announced. It did also cover TurboLASER, that was announced
yesterday!
Please find attached "Reading Instructions" which were broadcasted a week
ago in GOLDEN EGGS User Bulletin.
The text is bit long, but full of Hot Stuff.
Matti
PS. This is the second time that DEC Stock ramp up after GOLDEN EGGS
Visual Configurations get in market!
...................................................
Dear Friends,
Rev 20: - Please find attached a short description for new
Alpha diagrams in GOLDEN EGGS Visual Configuration
Guide, 06-Mar-1995.
- Panic mail from Jeanne!
- Index of Rev20
- Place your second order for GOLDEN EGGS!
Best regards,
Matti
-------------------------------------------------------------------------
ONE Language: The "visual language" of GOLDEN EGGS is readable World
Wide. This one and only booklet is happily used in all
major languages: in Finnish, Norwegian, Chinese,
English, Dutch, Hungarian, Savo, Japanese, Svensk etc..
You just mention a language in which One Picture is not
worth of thousand words!
Today there are over 52.000 known GOLDEN EGGS booklets
in world wide use.
Contents: GOLDEN EGGS has always covered the most popular options.
I have concentrated to PACKAGED systems and options
which are used in 90% of cases.
Today this same approach is well known as European
Advantage Menu.
There is a warm and safe shelter for this new "spin off"
under the popular wings of GOLDEN EGGS!
NEW PAGES:
Pages 2-3 This opening is the full Alpha Strategy. It covers
AlphaStations 200/400. AlphaServers 400/1000/2000/2100.
"Mainframe solution hosting" 8200/8400.
The Alpha Power is:
- One visual language
- One mechanical packaging
- One processor architecture
- One I/O, PCI
- One storage
- Three operating systems
Page 4 AlphaStation 200 4/100 166 233
- Technical block diagram
- Logical symbols
- On the desk
- All packages 100MHz 166MHz 233MHz
- Internal options, note Graphics!!!!
- External options
Configuration completed in 15 SECONDS!!!! What a tool!
Page 5 Alphaststion 400 4/233
- Technical block diagram
- Logical symbol
- On the floor/desk
- Packages
- Internal options
- External options
Page 6 AlphaServer 400 4/166
Same as above...
Page 7 AlphaServer 1000 4/200
Same functionality as above. Whole system is covered
by one page, bit crowded and works beautifully!
Page 8-9 AlphaServer 2000 4/200
Same functionality as above.
Page 8 is reserved for the system it self.
Page 9 is a living example of a Digital UNIX Cluster.
- Logical diagram of a DECsafe Cluster
- Physical picture of the system,
2x 2000 and SW300
- Happy users in the network.
Page 10-11 AlphaServer 2100 4/200 275
Same functionality as above.
2100-system in all packages and options on page 10.
Page 11 covers three examples
- Minimal standalone system
- Heavy expanded system
- VMS based cluster, what a cable spaghetti!
Pages 12-13 Alphaserver 8200 5/300
Deep technical block diagram. Cabinet layout and storage
trays on page 12.
Second page includes a heavy,three processor in cabinet
fully booked VMS cluster with external VAX 4000-600.
DSSI storage is installed in SW300 cabinet.
Pages 14-15 AlphaServer 8400 5/300
Same as above. Real surfing on engineering block
diagrams, what a dream for system builder!
Highly trilling and exciting, or one gets totally lost!
Second page is for example.
Hosting Mainframe Solutions:
- Two AlphaServers: 8GB, 8-processors, 2x FWD
- Two SW800, 619GB, 2x 140MB tape
Pages 16...46 Updated, traditional GOLDEN EGGS
- AXP 3000 family
- AXP 7000 family
- DECsafe
- VAXstations
- MicroVax 3100 family
- VAX 4000 family
- VAX 7000 family
- DEChub 90 900
- StorageWorks....
PANIC MAIL FROM JEANNE:
There is not to many GOLDIES left,
hurry up!
Pvm: 31.03.1995 01:44 EET
L�hett�j�:Jeanne Defranco @TUO
DEFRANCO.JEANNE@DELREYA1
@DOHENY@IVO
Osasto:
Puhelin:
Numero: 026295
Vastaanottaja: matti patari@fno
Tiedoksi: art jones@tuo
Aihe: More golden Eggs! 1
Hi Matti,
The golden Eggs Visual Configuration document was such a hit in the
office that we need more.
Please send me 50 more documents, part number EC-RO20B-36.
Thanks!
Jeanne DeFranco
Digital Equipment Corporation
6377 East Tanque Verde Road
Tucson, Az 85715
P.S. Can you tell my how long this will take?
ANSWER: NEXT FRIDAY
INDEX OF REV 20
GOLDEN EGGS Visual Configurations Rev20 06-Mar-1995
---------------------------------------------------
Table of contents
About This Manual Page 1
Alpha: AlphaStations & AlphaServers/PCI 2
AlphaServer 8200 & 8400/PCI 3
Workstations: AlphaStation 200 4/100 166 233 4
AlphaStation 400 4/233 5
Servers: AlphaServer 400 4/166 6
Alphaserver 1000 4/200 7
AlphaServer 2000 4/200 8-9
AlphaServer 2100 4/200 275 10-11
AlphaServer 8200 5/300 12-13
AlphaServer 8400 5/300 14-15
Servers: DEC 2000 Model 300 AXP 16
DEC 2000 Model 500 AXP 17
Workstations: DEC 3000 Model 700 AXP 18
DEC 3000 Model 900 AXP 19
Server: DEC 7000 Model 710 AXP 20-21
DECsafe Available Server 22-23
VAX:
VAXstations: VAXstation 4000 M60 24
VAXstation 4000 M90A 25
MicroVAX: MicroVAX 3100 M30 M40 M80 26-27
MicroVAX 3100 M85 28
MicroVAX 3100 M95 29
VAX: VAX 4000 Model 105A 30-31
VAX 4000 Model 300 32-33
VAX 4000 Model 700 34-35
VAX 4000 Model 505A 705A 36-37
VAX 7000 Model 710 38-39
Communications: DEChub 90 40
DEChub 900 41
StorageWorks: DECarray SF400 42
StorageWorks 300 43
StorageWorks 500 44
StorageWorks 800 45
StorageWorks 46
SCSI Cables 47
END.
Order Now: GOLDEN EGGS Visual Configuration guide Rev 20
Ordering gate is open now!
DHL-jets are extremely busy in distribution!
Volume order are accepted as response to this mail.
Send your kind volume order to:
MATTI PATARI at FNO
Booklet order number: EC-R020B-36
Price $10/Copy
Minimum order 50 copies , One Box.
Please place your order with shipping details:
- Your CC
- Your CC managers name
- Number of copies ordered ( 50 is minimum)
- Accurate Digital shipping STREET address.
( No Box, include your Country name too)
Thank You for your kind order!
Matti Patari
Sales Support in Helsinki,Finland
|
| 3793.24 | Thanks for your efforts | GLDOA::CUTLER | | Thu Apr 13 1995 09:44 | 42 |
|
Matti,
Thanks for responding back to my note. My only comment is that there
should be some type of provision for "new product update" sheets.
I don't know of how many cost centers will be willing to "re-purchase"
a set of the entire "GOLDENEGGS" book each time, there's a new product
announcement. Ideally, if corporate would "offically" support this
effort, updates could be made available over the net with each
announcement.
Each person involved with the sale and configuration of systems would
have a notebook (3 ring binder), that they could add these updates to.
This would also allow the retention of configuration guidelines for
outdated/old systems. I can't tell you how many times we've had to look
for old "SYSTEMS AND OPTIONS" catalogs to understand an older system
that a customer is just getting around to upgrading.
I see this tool as making life easier and allowing for more productivity
among the sales teams and channels partners.
Which will translate into more
time with the customer and more sales.... This is really refreshing to
see such creativity being applied towards helping with the way we do
business. The sales force has really been blamed/dumped on for the last few
years. All I do is look at the systems that we have in place for doing
quotes, configuring systems, the entire information "infrastructure"
and shake my head. I don't blame the sales force, the systems just aren't
in place to support their effort. They say, "spend more time with the
customers", but yet it takes forever to do a configuration and a quote.
Golden Eggs goes along way toward improving this. Once again Matti,
thanks for your efforts.
Rick
|
| 3793.25 | On-line Access is there.. | EEMELI::PATARI | | Thu Apr 13 1995 10:51 | 34 |
| Rick,
For the last six-seven years which I have been producing GOLDEN EGGS,
I have also kept an On-line library in our home node here in Helsinki.
This is the pointer:
HSKAPL::SYS$PUBLIC:[ANU]GOLDxxxxx.PS (this is for active products)
HSKAPL::SYS$PUBLIC:[ANU.OLD]GOLDxxxx.PS (old products in Maintenance)
These two directories contain all existing files/pages.
All new updates are dropped to the [ANU] directory. The recent
update is AlphaStation 250 4/266 = GOLD2504266a.PS
When a product gets in maintenance status, it will gradually be
moved to the [ANU.OLD] directory. This is where you can pick up
pages for MicroVAX 3300, DEC5100 etc....
In the Fresh, Rev20 GOLDEN EGGS Visual Configurations guide, there
are a bunch of brilliant Alpha pages. At this moment these pages
are available in hard copy only. Price is $10/booklet in full
Boxes of 50 copies.
(at this moment, this is the only way to get funding for this
0.2 man's World Wide GOLDEN EGGS Enterprise !!)
This is just a nominal price compared with the SELLING/ORDERING
power witch our Sales organisation can get using it. I know that
every DEC manager will be that responsive that his/her
troops are equipped well enough to Sell our products. This applies
also to all MCS organisation too.
Matti
|
| 3793.26 | | NEVAX::MURRAY | Its now, or never | Thu Apr 13 1995 14:34 | 10 |
|
Would it not be economically prudent to co-locate distribution nodes
around the world, so we don't burn up a lot of dollars moving the same
data, over and over and over...
And for the record, this sounds like a GREAT tool, we so desparately
need! Now if we could get a MS-Windows driven version with ongoing
updates, generate on-site quotes...
Mike M.
|
| 3793.27 | | CSEXP2::ANDREWS | I'm the NRA | Thu Apr 13 1995 14:39 | 8 |
|
> Would it not be economically prudent to co-locate distribution nodes
> around the world, so we don't burn up a lot of dollars moving the same
> data, over and over and over...
Um, kind of like putting it into TIMA?
|
| 3793.28 | The Customer Bursted in Tears! | EEMELI::PATARI | | Thu Apr 13 1995 18:31 | 53 |
|
Some answers to reply .26
rep.26
Would it not be economically prudent to co-locate distribution nodes
around the world, so we don't burn up a lot of dollars moving the same
data, over and over and over...
This sound very good and economical, why not.
Until today I just have not managed to find any parties
who are willing to do it and also pay for the material = the work
to do all information chasing and artwork. Up today my managers poor
CC has swollowed all expenses.
rep.26
And for the record, this sounds like a GREAT tool, we so desparately
need! Now if we could get a MS-Windows driven version with ongoing
updates, generate on-site quotes...
This is the right hit on the nail. This is what has happened all these
six years. I originally tailored my symbol library for custom tailored
configurations. The main target were Quotes and Onsite documentation
for MSC.
Customers are that happy when they get a nice configurtion diagram
from their CI-clusters or example three VAX DSSI-clusters.
These diagrams highly courage our customers to expand their existing
systems. It is just like singing to add some disk or nodes in these
GOLDEN digrams. They really get nuts and open their wallets! for
upgrades!!
Yester day I configured one AlphaServer 8200 system with a customer.
We used GOLDEN EGGS hard copy diagrams as base configuration tool
during phone conversations. Then I pushed the ideas into my
VAXstation. After 15 minutes I had flashing diagram for a heavy
computing system with 4CPUs, 4GB mem, 29 disks, tape for 140GB.
And all this hardware in one cabinet except the tape on floor pedestal.
This was just one piece of paper representing a system for 1 mega
dollars.
This diagram was a logical diagram plus cabinet layout on one glance.
In the afternoon I met this customer,reseller. In 20 minutes it was
clear to him what he was selling just a single day after TurboLaser
was anounced. He immediately rocketed to his own customer!
This is the real reason why DEC shares are shooting up!
17.000 hard copies of GOLDEN EGGS Visual Configurations have landed
in the field.
Best regards from the 0.2 man's World Wide GOLDEN EGGS Enterprize,
Matti
PS. Next week I will add this diagram to the online libray.
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| 3793.29 | Is that Screaming sound coming from ... | MARVA1::POWELL | Arranging bits for a living... | Thu Apr 13 1995 19:17 | 8 |
| >> It is just like singing to add some disk or nodes in these GOLDEN digrams.
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Uh Oh! You mentioned this word in response to a reply from Mike :-)
Now we're probably gonna have to suffer through another GOLDEN OLDIE...
Hey, maybe that's what you can call your archived files!
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| 3793.30 | 8200 in Digital Unix! | EEMELI::PATARI | | Tue Apr 18 1995 12:22 | 15 |
| Hi!
Please find attached pointer to the diagram, which I mentioned
in reply 28.
This is a heavy one cabinet system plus external tape.
The file is a friendly PostScript for your printing.
Matti
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Directory HSKAPL::SYS$PUBLIC:[ANU]GOLDas82005300c.PS
GOLDAS82005300C.PS;1 383 18-APR-1995 17:55:57.00
Total of 1 file, 383 blocks.
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| 3793.31 | All four pages of 8200 are here | EEMELI::PATARI | | Thu Apr 20 1995 14:30 | 43 |
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Hi
The complete four page AlphaServer 8200 is ON-line.
Please help your selves,
Matti
<<< KENT::PUBLIC:[NOTES$SERVER]TURBOLASER_MARKETING.NOTE;1 >>>
-< TurboLaser Marketing >-
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Note 95.0 8200 GOLDEN EGGS are here No replies
EEMELI::PATARI 31 lines 20-APR-1995 13:26
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Dear GOLDEN EGGS fans!
AlphaServer 8200 is here.
Please find the pointer to these fresh GOLDEN EGGS pages.
Four pages:
Page a "base material" for AlphaServer 8200 with order numbers.
Page b "OpenVNS DSSI Cluster, VAX 4000-600 and AlphaServer 8200.
Page c "Heavy one cabinet Digital UNIX server 8200.
Page d "Digital UNIX Cluster" two cabinets and DEC Safe.
This diagram uses two GOLDEN EGGS presentation leyers,
Logical Presentation and Technical Presentation.
Good selling,
Matti
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Directory HSKAPL::SYS$PUBLIC:[ANU]
GOLDAS82005300A.PS;3
516 20-APR-1995 17:26:43.00
GOLDAS82005300B.PS;3
483 20-APR-1995 14:21:37.00
GOLDAS82005300C.PS;3
382 20-APR-1995 19:55:55.00
GOLDAS82005300D.PS;3
433 20-APR-1995 19:42:25.00
GOLDSW300.PS;4 700 20-APR-1995 20:03:58.00
Total of 5 files, 2514 blocks.
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| 3793.32 | through web | NAMIX::jpt | FIS and Chips | Fri May 05 1995 12:24 | 10 |
| I have added some of the Matti's valuable Golden Eggs to:
http://viima.fno.dec.com/
You can find them under topic "New AlphaServer Systems"
These are the on-line versions...
regards,
-jari
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| 3793.33 | Only $2/ Hard Copy!!!! | EEMELI::PATARI | | Fri May 19 1995 07:20 | 41 |
| Pvm: 16.05.1995 17:28 EET L�hett�j�:Matti P�T�RI @FNO
PATARI.MATTI
Osasto: FN MKTG
Puhelin: 879-5174 /HELSINKI
Numero: 027496
Vastaanottaja: (distribution of 800 names is deleted)
Aihe: A: Almost Free Copies of GOLDEN EGGS Rev20 Visual Configurations
It's time for BARGAIN! Clearance SALE!
GOLDEN EGGS Visual Configurations Rev20 for TWO Dollars
per hard copy!
Minimum order: TWO boxes = 100 hard copies.
* Biggest orders are handled first.
* Orders accepted as long as copies are available.
Have a strong boost for ending Q4 !!!!!
Order Now: DHL-jets are in 24h stand by! Send your kind order to:
MATTI PATARI at FNO
Booklet order number: EC-R020B-36
Price $2/Copy
Minimum order 100 copies , TWO Boxes.
Please place your order with shipping details:
- Your CC
- Your CC managers name
- Number of copies ordered ( 100 is minimum)
- Accurate Digital shipping STREET address.
( No Box, include your Country name too)
Matti Patari
Sales Support in Helsinki,Finland
PS. Already 17.000 hard copies of Rev20 has been shipped
since 6-Mar-1995.
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