| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 707.1 | Capture oral history as well | DR::BLINN | Avoid Career Limiting Decisions | Fri Jan 27 1989 11:12 | 18 |
| Jamie, I think it's wonderful that we're working now to capture
Digital's history, before any more of the original materials
and original people are gone.
One technique for capturing history that has become popular is the
use of audio and video techniques together with interviews of
people who were there.
If you do sponsor presentations on Digital's history, with live
speakers, be sure to capture the presentations, at least with
audio technology, and preferably with video.
I know that there are still many people working at DEC who have
been here for a relatively long time, and who have stories they
could share that would really round out the "formal" history
that's captured with documents and exhibits.
Tom
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| 707.2 | | LDP::PEARSON | | Fri Jan 27 1989 13:23 | 7 |
| re: .1, Tom, we will most certainly audiotape and then transcribe
the talks and/or interviews for the archives and make the
tapes/transcripts available to employees either through my program
or the libraries.
Thanks, Jamie
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| 707.3 | | SALSA::MOELLER | Audio/Video/MIDIophile | Fri Jan 27 1989 15:19 | 14 |
| I think it's a great idea. A series of videos could be produced,
using materials you're already collecting, and ongoing interviews
with longterm employees.
The series could cover Digital from a business perspective, from
an Employee perspective, from a physical plant perspective (i.e.
from the Mill to the World), and of course on the products themselves.
Another one on the evolution of the Easynet.
The video idea would work well, for example, in remote offices where
the employees rarely make it back East to see exhibits. Also for
new (and not so new) hires, seeking more background on the company.
karl
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| 707.4 | Another idea | SDSVAX::SWEENEY | Patrick Sweeney | Fri Jan 27 1989 18:36 | 4 |
| Please be sure to involve customers, they may have similar collections
especially photography of pre-PDP-8 computers and some interesting
applications. DECUS is probably the method to contact customers for
such materials.
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| 707.5 | DEC humor | QUARK::LIONEL | Ad Astra | Fri Jan 27 1989 22:34 | 8 |
| I'd also like to see some of the lighter side of Digital in the
collection. Humorous posters and buttons, fake advertisments and
"product descriptions" (the SD730 comes to mind for the latter...),
Charlie Andres' "CPU Wars" (one of my copies is buried in the
Spit Brook time capsule), etc. I think this would help give a
more personal perspective into Digital.
Steve
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| 707.6 | CPU Wars! | LDP::PEARSON | | Mon Jan 30 1989 10:02 | 4 |
| I'd sure like to get my hands on a copy of "CPU Wars" -- if anyone
knows of one, please let me know.
Jamie
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| 707.7 | TAMARA::WAR_STORY | EAGLE1::EGGERS | Tom, VAX & MIPS architecture | Mon Jan 30 1989 12:08 | 2 |
| The TAMARA::WAR_STORY conference has a lot of fascinating
references to Digital history.
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| 707.8 | | COVERT::COVERT | John R. Covert | Mon Jan 30 1989 12:46 | 4 |
| Not very long ago, copies of CPU Wars could be purchased in the comics store
next to Wordsworth in Harvard Square.
/john
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| 707.9 | Also try Newbury Comics | TLE::AMARTIN | Alan H. Martin | Sun Feb 05 1989 09:34 | 7 |
| Re .8:
I've just your note. I was browsing in Milion-Year Picnic last night, and no
copies of CPU Wars were plainly visible. However, I didn't ask if there were
any stored someplace, since I already have a copy. I bought mine in the Newbury
Comics on Newbury St. a number of years ago.
/AHM
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