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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

1952.0. "PCs in Galway ?????" by MACNAS::PCURLEY () Fri Jun 19 1992 06:48

    Does anybody know anything about this, rumours or otherwise? It has
    come as a suprise to most people here in Galway.
    Rgds...Paddy
    
    
    (extracted from today's UK Livewire on VTX)
    
                                      LIVE WIRE
    
                                     DIGITAL NEWS
    
                             Digital Internal Communication               
    
    
        DIGITAL TO BUILD PCS IN IRELAND
    
        Digital Equipment looks likely to start building its own PCs at its
        plant in Galway within a year. At the moment Digital badges PCs
    	made by Intel and Olivetti for the European market. However since 
        February, it has designed and built its own machines at its Taiwan 
        plant for the South East Asian and American market. British component 
        suppliers say they are hoping to sell to Digital in Ireland soon. A 
        Digital spokesman refused to confirm any plans to build PCs in Ireland.
    
        Electronics Weekly, London. June 17, 1992

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1952.1	ICs for PCs	FIELD::LOUGHLINI	William the Complacent	`Fri Jun 19 1992 08:21`	8
	Could be just modules, especially since this rumour was started by a component vendor ! Given the normal NPSU cycle time in mfg I would expect you to know about plans to build PCs, if this was intended to happen in 1 year. Ian
1952.2	The full article	AYOV18::FSPAIN	Sending out a SOS	`Fri Jun 19 1992 08:44`	39
	As the article does not list any solid confirmation from a digital spokeperson then I would say this is pure speculation !! Feargal. From the June 17 issue of `Electronics Weekly' ---------------------------------------------- America's second largest computer maker, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), looks likely to start building its own PCs at its Galway plant in Ireland within a year. This comes hot on the heels of DECs recent move to make its own PCs in Taiwan to service US and Far East customers. At the moment, DEC badges PCs made by Intel and Olivetti for the European market. However since Febraury, it has designed and built its own machines at its Taiwan plant for the South East Asian and American markets, and components suppliers in Britian are expecting to be able to sell to Ireland in the future. "There is development work going on in Scotland," one supplier told EW, "and we have been talking to purchasing people there. We are expecting manufacture to take place in Ireland, but not for about a year." An Irish distributor told EW that he was hoping to sell components for PCs to DEC Galway in the near future. A DEC spokesman refused to confirm any plans to build PCs in Ireland. However, he said: "It is our policy to source our machines locally, but if we can build at our own facilities at the right price, we will do so. If that situation occurred in Europe there is no reason why we shouldn't do it." He insisted that existing arrangements with Olivetti and Intel would remain in place, and pointed out that Tandy also supplies DEC with PCs for the American market despite DECs move to manufacturing in Taiwan. PCs and related products and software accounted for $1.25bn in revenue for DEC in calender 1991, according to the spokesman. He also said that DEC wants to increase its share of the UK PC market from about one per cent in 1991 to five per cent by 1993.
1952.3	Which chip would be used?	TEXAS1::SOBECKY	It's all ones and zeros	`Fri Jun 19 1992 09:39`	4
	If DEC were to build its own PCs, what chip (CPU) would be used? John
1952.4	What else?	VMSVTP::S_WATTUM	OSI Applications Engineering, West	`Fri Jun 19 1992 09:40`	1
	An Alpha running in 486 compatability mode of course!
1952.5	Buffer: NOTES$EDIT	FIELD::LOUGHLINI	William the Complacent	`Fri Jun 19 1992 10:45`	4
	Intel 8051 of course! It worked for the DHV11. Ian
1952.6	Next Generation Chip Available	FHOPAS::JAMBE::MCMULLEN		`Fri Jun 19 1992 13:36`	1
	re: -3 .... Chocolate Chip!!!!!!!
1952.7	Fastest Chip	JULIET::NGUYEN_HU		`Fri Jun 19 1992 18:06`	2
	Or maybe Dorito Chip, since it can Crunch number faster.
1952.8	yup	GLOWS::COCCOLI		`Wed Jul 15 1992 21:42`	3
	Reply .4 is close to the truth.