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| 4107.1 | Salem, NH (NIO) does | MKOTS3::CANNEY | | Thu Sep 07 1995 16:11 | 10 |
| I know the Salem, NH plant (NIO) still gives Customer tours (I was at
one last week). Dave Sullivan is the Customer Satisfaction contact
there and he gives the tours. I'd give him a call at 285-2717 to see if
he could work anything out for you. He's very accomodating. He may be able
to work an abbreviated tour, as the typical one gets pretty technical on
the manufacturing floor.
Regards,
Don Canney
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| 4107.2 | We could probably even charge for them! | STAR::DIPIRRO | | Thu Sep 07 1995 16:52 | 5 |
| I remember suggesting once that they should give tours at the
Spitbrook facility....kind of alternative to going to the circus..
It could be just the thing for the aspiring young nerd, but it might
also send young people fleeing to distant careers. Even KO used to be
afraid to come here, and who could blame him?
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| 4107.3 | oh! jeeeez.. and my wife works there! | ICS::BEAN | Attila the Hun was a LIBERAL! | Thu Sep 07 1995 17:25 | 1 |
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| 4107.4 | | QUARK::LIONEL | Free advice is worth every cent | Thu Sep 07 1995 18:30 | 3 |
| Spit Brook tours are only given to kids if they're female.
Steve
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| 4107.5 | Implied smily on .-1? | MNATUR::LISTON | | Thu Sep 07 1995 18:57 | 3 |
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Was there an implied smily on that comment Steve?
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| 4107.6 | play on words :) | AQU027::SAXENA | DEC! ReClaim Thy Name 'n Glory | Thu Sep 07 1995 19:31 | 6 |
| .4
>Spit Brook tours are only given to kids if they're female.
err.. what happens if the Spit Brook tour is a male ?? It a'int given
to the kids then ?? They probably just trash it.
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| 4107.7 | | AXEL::FOLEY | Rebel without a Clue | Thu Sep 07 1995 21:47 | 9 |
| RE: .6
Steve was "bringing to light" the fact that there is a "Bring
your Daughter to work" day, but not a "Bring your Son to work"
day.
Ducking for cover from the feminists,
mike
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| 4107.8 | | QUARK::LIONEL | Free advice is worth every cent | Thu Sep 07 1995 22:13 | 4 |
| Hey - I consider myself a feminist. I might have to duck from
the exclusionists.
Steve
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| 4107.9 | thanks! | AIMHI::BILODEAU | | Fri Sep 08 1995 14:54 | 11 |
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I did find out that the Hudson facility offers tours but you must be
16yrs old or older. Since my son's a 9th grader and 14, I guess
that's not for him.
I'll check with Dave Sullivan in Salem, to see if they have any age
restrictions. I hope not.
Thanks for your input,
Betty
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| 4107.10 | | IROCZ::MORRISON | Bob M. LKG1-3/A11 226-7570 | Sun Sep 10 1995 17:55 | 7 |
| Re age of people on tours: Hudson and several other Digital plants don't
allow children under 16 to visit for safety reasons. They decided to apply this
to the entire facility even though the hazard is mainly in the production
areas. There was a discussion of this in here a few years ago.
It would be nice if there was a Digital plant somewhere in the GMA that did
allow school groups under age 16 to take tours. That is, a plant that actually
has something that children would be interested in seeing.
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| 4107.11 | tours | AIMHI::BILODEAU | | Mon Sep 11 1995 10:09 | 11 |
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Yes, I do agree. My son's computer class is now studying the history
of Computers. So I thought it would be nice if Digital had some type
of tour for Students where they review the history of Digital and see
some of the old computers (PDPs etc..).
-BB
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| 4107.12 | | QUARK::LIONEL | Free advice is worth every cent | Mon Sep 11 1995 11:04 | 7 |
| What facility has these? When MRO had the Computer Museum, that would
suffice, but I know that Spit Brook just has pictures.
Most of our facilities would not be terribly interesting to school kids.
Who wants to see a bunch of people quietly typing in their offices?
Steve
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| 4107.13 | Give your own tour maybe? | ICS::CROUCH | Subterranean Dharma Bum | Mon Sep 11 1995 12:19 | 8 |
| There's a nice Computer Museum in Boston which I believe we had a
hand in creating. At least we donated a lot to it. Someone, I can't
remember her name Lynn something, in PKO used to give tours to Maynard
high students. Not sure how she got permission to give the tour but
perhaps .0 could look into giving a tour as well.
Jim C.
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| 4107.14 | pdp11s .. still live | TESA::WILSOND | learning as i go | Mon Sep 11 1995 13:56 | 7 |
| re: .11
Kanata Mfg still uses a pdp11 to test some of the old wire-wrap backplanes
(repaired or built for replacement stock). it has a RL02 too! (image
that, a OS and the associated prgrams on a 10MByte disk ... wow).
david
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| 4107.15 | MRO2 lobby | LGP30::FLEISCHER | without vision the people perish (DTN 297-5780, MRO2-3/E8) | Tue Sep 12 1995 01:18 | 11 |
| re Note 4107.11 by AIMHI::BILODEAU:
> of Computers. So I thought it would be nice if Digital had some type
> of tour for Students where they review the history of Digital and see
> some of the old computers (PDPs etc..).
There's no tour (as far as I know) but the Digital historical
collection is in the lobby of MRO2 -- a number of systems
from a PDP-1 on up are there as well as part of Whirlwind.
Bob
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| 4107.16 | | REGENT::POWERS | | Tue Sep 12 1995 09:16 | 9 |
| > There's no tour (as far as I know) but the Digital historical
> collection is in the lobby of MRO2 -- a number of systems
> from a PDP-1 on up are there as well as part of Whirlwind.
The TX-0 (was that part of Whirlwind?) has been removed from the MRO2
collection as of this past summer.
I think it was going to the Computer Museum's collection.
- tom]
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| 4107.17 | Try HLO | MRKTNG::PRINDLE | | Tue Sep 12 1995 14:05 | 8 |
| Hudson, Mass. (Digital Semiconductor) does tours all the time
thru FAB4. I am not sure if there are any age restrictions but I take
customers there frequently. The contact is Marie Palatino 225-6138.
(CHIPBZ::Palatino)
Hope this helps
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| 4107.18 | | LGP30::FLEISCHER | without vision the people perish (DTN 297-5780, MRO2-3/E8) | Wed Sep 13 1995 00:55 | 15 |
| re Note 4107.16 by REGENT::POWERS:
> The TX-0 (was that part of Whirlwind?) has been removed from the MRO2
> collection as of this past summer.
> I think it was going to the Computer Museum's collection.
I was there when they were removing it (the TX-0) and they
said that it was going to an exhibit at Lincoln Labs (I did
not ask and they did not say whether it would be returning).
The Whirlwind is a decidedly earlier vintage -- it has TUBES!
The TX-0 was the first transistor computer (or so I've been
told).
Bob
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