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| 5272.1 | | TALLIS::NELSON | It's not the years it's the mileage! | Fri May 02 1997 08:06 | 6 |
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The biggest one. I think we're still fighting the two smaller ones.
Brian
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| 5272.2 | Ann Landers for spokesperson ?? | WBC::DOERING | Wash BM Center 339-5213 | Sat May 03 1997 13:36 | 6 |
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Earlier this week, Ann Landers had a column sent in concerning stupid
lawsuits and her reply mentioned afew others, including this suit
against Digital Equipment Corporation, the keyboard maker.
Randy
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| 5272.3 | | MRPTH1::16.121.160.236::slab | [email protected] | Sat May 03 1997 16:19 | 5 |
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Just what we need ... to be referred to as a "keyboard maker".
8^)
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| 5272.4 | Keyboards - the new niche ? | OTOU01::MAIN | Systems Integration-Canada,621-5078 | Sun May 04 1997 09:54 | 7 |
| Ahh .. Keyboards - the new "niche" market eh ?
mmm... that is one of those things where you hang your keys isn't it ?
:-)
/ Kerry
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| 5272.5 | | KAOM25::WALL | DEC Is Digital | Mon May 05 1997 13:30 | 5 |
| Ahhh, but their "digital" keyboards as opposed to "analog" or music
keyboards. Sometimes being overlooked can work for you!
r
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| 5272.6 | | STAR::PARKE | Sometimes pigeon, Sometimes statue | Mon May 05 1997 13:46 | 2 |
| At least it isn't watches.
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| 5272.7 | Very good feel, good layout (in spite of the ESC key).... | PERFOM::LICEA_KANE | when it's comin' from the left | Mon May 05 1997 14:10 | 6 |
| Until recently, Digital was indeed a keyboard maker.
And a very good keyboard maker at that.
(The inverted "T" cursor layout was a Digital innovation.)
-mr. bill
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| 5272.8 | | MRPTH1::16.121.160.242::slab | [email protected] | Wed May 07 1997 01:37 | 6 |
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Yes, Bill, we made keyboards, but "Digital - the keyboard maker" is not a good indication of
what we do.
At least, I hope there's more to us than that.
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| 5272.9 | | STAR::KLEINSORGE | Fred Kleinsorge, OpenVMS Engineering | Wed May 07 1997 12:31 | 6 |
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A lot of people make keyboards, we do not, and haven't for a long time.
We have them built for us by someone who can sell them to us for $12,
instead of us builfing them for $20.
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| 5272.10 | | HYDRA::SCHAFER | Mark Schafer, SPE MRO | Wed May 07 1997 13:17 | 3 |
| RE: .9 Our manufacturing cost was more like $60 in the early 80s.
Mark
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| 5272.11 | Keyboards is the only thing relevant to the article | TAY2P1::HOWARD | Whoever it takes | Wed May 07 1997 13:39 | 22 |
| >Yes, Bill, we made keyboards, but "Digital - the keyboard maker" is not
>a good indication of what we do.
It is in the context of the story that Ann Landers was telling. I know
it sounds a little funny, but the whole issue is over keyboards:
There was a stupid lawsuit against Digital, the world's leader in
networking, over injuries sustained on a keyboard.
There was a stupid lawsuit against Digital, a systems integration
provider, over injuries sustained on a keyboard.
There was a stupid lawsuit against Digital, which developed VMS,
the 24x7 Operating system, and manufacturer of the first systems
that ran UNIX . . .
There was a stupid lawsuit against McDonald's, which has sold 100
billion hamburgers, over injuries sustained from a cup of coffee.
Ben
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