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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

1922.0. "Exact date DEC founded?" by STAR::DIPIRRO () Wed Jun 03 1992 17:38

    	Does anyone know the exact date at which Digital was officially
    founded? I believe it was sometime in August, 1957, but I'm looking for the
    exact date. Thanks.
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1922.1August, 1957ICS::JOHNSONLWed Jun 03 1992 17:483
    You're correct that the date is August, 1957, but I don't know the
    exact day.  If you look in LIVE WIRE's Worldwide menu, option titled
    "DEC at a Glance," you'll see the August, 1957 date.
1922.2WBC::RODENHISERWed Jun 03 1992 19:4613
    From DIGITAL AT WORK Snapshots from the first thirty-five years:
    
    A proposal to American Research and Development was made on
    May 27, 1957 looking for funding.
    
    A search for floor space in the mill began on July 9th, an agreement was
    reached on August 20th but the lease wasn't signed until August 27th
    which was after the corporate name was approved by the State House in
    Boston.
    
    I guess that one could assume that the *exact* date is sometime between
    August 20-27.
    
1922.3I was founded on September 5th, 1957BIGJOE::DMCLURENew World OdorWed Jun 03 1992 20:411
					-davo
1922.4founded?SSDEVO::EGGERSAnybody can fly with an engine.Thu Jun 04 1992 02:581
    Hmmm.  Does he mean conceived or born?
1922.5found?CREATV::QUODLINGKen, Me, and a cast of extras...Thu Jun 04 1992 03:071
    
1922.6foundered?CSOADM::ROTHThe Blues MagoosThu Jun 04 1992 15:330
1922.7hatched!STOKES::HIGGINSMonetarily ChallengedThu Jun 04 1992 16:331
    
1922.8spawnedWLDBIL::KILGORE...57 channels, and nothin' on...Thu Jun 04 1992 17:351
    
1922.9SERPedRT93::HUThu Jun 04 1992 18:131
    
1922.10ASABET::PEARSONThu Jun 04 1992 19:332
    The exact date is 8/23/57.
    
1922.11Oh Well. DEC is 1 week older than me. :-> (8/30/57)ALOSWS::SCHICKEDANZImaging in Albany, NY 344-7208Thu Jun 04 1992 20:580
1922.12SSDEVO::EGGERSAnybody can fly with an engine.Fri Jun 05 1992 05:446
    Re: .10
    
    Jamie,
    
    What is considered DEC's birth day?  The filing of the incorporation
    papers or something else?  What precisely happened on 8/23/57?
1922.13KO KnowsLARVAE::NOBLEFri Jun 05 1992 09:304
    
    Ask Ken, unless he SERPED.
    
    :-)
1922.14WLDBIL::KILGORE...57 channels, and nothin' on...Fri Jun 05 1992 14:144
    
    Is this so important because you want to put "born" and "died" dates
    on the headstone?
    
1922.15must be losted to be founded?NEWPRT::KING_MIFri Jun 12 1992 21:223
    re: .3
    
    When were you losted?