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| 2855.1 | MR4SRV::MARKETING, topic 128 | RANGER::BACKSTROM | bwk,pjp;SwTools;pg2;lines23-24 | Sun Jan 16 1994 17:18 | 0 |
| 2855.2 | | SAHQ::LUBER | I have a Bobby Cox dart board | Tue Jan 18 1994 17:11 | 13 |
| Clearly, we are not price competitive in this commodity market. Dell,
Gateway, and a few others are now offering the following for $3999:
Pentium P-60 processor
16 mb ram
528 mb hard drive
double spin CD Rom
Graphics accelerator card
PCI local bus
1 mb video ram
We offer less of a machine for half again the price. When will we
learn?
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| 2855.3 | Discovery Channel advertising | NOVA::R_ANDERSON | My timing is Digital. | Tue Apr 19 1994 15:16 | 7 |
| There were several (four?) ads on the Discovery Channel last night for
Digital PC's. I thought the ads were quite well done - especially the
one about who invented networking before identifying Digital - good job!
Now if only we can do the same thing for databases :-)
Rick
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| 2855.4 | | LGP30::FLEISCHER | without vision the people perish (DTN 223-8576, MSO2-2/A2, IM&T) | Tue Apr 19 1994 16:12 | 3 |
| re Note 2855.3 by NOVA::R_ANDERSON:
Ok, who did invent networking before identifying Digital?
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| 2855.5 | We did! | NOVA::R_ANDERSON | My timing is Digital. | Thu Apr 21 1994 11:03 | 5 |
| > Ok, who did invent networking before identifying Digital?
The ad ends with something like "Oh, we did! Digital".
Rick
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| 2855.6 | | NACAD::SHERMAN | Steve NETCAD::Sherman DTN 226-6992, LKG2-A/R05 pole AA2 | Thu Apr 21 1994 13:21 | 5 |
| You know, maybe we could continue this ad thread. We could point out
what a great OS Unix is, then ask whose machine was the first to run
Unix?
Steve
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| 2855.7 | Hind Sight | GUCCI::HERB | New Personal Name coming soon! | Thu Apr 21 1994 14:06 | 6 |
| >then ask whose machine was the first to run Unix?
Can we really "take credit" for this? I dare to add that Digital was
given the opportunity to buy UNIX lock, stock, and barrel in the 70s
for about $50K but turned it down. My former employer was the
instigator of this.
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| 2855.8 | | REGENT::BLOCHER | | Thu Apr 21 1994 14:15 | 2 |
| UNIX was developed on PDP 8 machines.
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| 2855.9 | more down the history rathole | CVG::THOMPSON | An AlphaGeneration Noter | Thu Apr 21 1994 14:25 | 10 |
| According to Kernighan & Ritchie in "The C Programming Language"
the first UNIX was on a PDP-7. I believe that most of the real
work was later done on PDP-11s and Interdata 8/32s. Interdata
also took a long time to embrace UNIX. It was happening when I
left there in 1982. Though by that time they were a division of
Perkin Elmer. Since then they have undergone a number of other
corporate changes but embracing UNIX has not been enough to make
them a big player in the industry.
Alfred
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| 2855.10 | | KAOFS::B_VANVALKENB | | Thu Apr 21 1994 14:54 | 12 |
| Seen a PC ad on The Learning Channel last night during Connections 2
The ad didn't show a product, didn't talk about a product and said
nothing about the company.
XL "beyond the box"
What a joke
Brian V
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| 2855.11 | adds also on CNN and SCI-FI channel | SPECXN::B_BRADACH | | Thu Apr 21 1994 15:21 | 5 |
| I have seen the PC adds for the last several weeks on CNN as
well as the SCI-FI channel. Same adds everyone is referring to
about networking and PC's.
bernie
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| 2855.12 | we need better ads | UNYEM::JAMESS | | Thu Apr 21 1994 15:35 | 6 |
| does anyone else think it is a waste to buy TV time then make them
read the ad. I usually don't pay much attention to the commercials
anyway. Words across the creen are much easier to ignore than most
TV ads.
Steve J.
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| 2855.13 | And We Probably Spend more on ads than NEC | LJSRV2::FEHSKENS | len - reformed architect | Thu Apr 21 1994 15:40 | 12 |
|
What I find interesting is the series of ads that NEC has been running;
the ones with the full page faces with a teasing remark. The versions
they run in the PC mags are multipage, but they also run a one page
version in the general consumption media like Time and Newsweek. I
wonder which company (NEC or DEC) has higher name recognition,
especially among purchase decision makers for computer systems.
How many Fortune 100 companies are known only to industry insiders?
len.
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| 2855.14 | | REGENT::BLOCHER | | Thu Apr 21 1994 20:38 | 6 |
| Re: .8 .9
I stand corrected. It was the PDP7. The person who told me PDP 8
mis-informed me. I knew that it was one of the earlier DEC machines
that we had sold AT&T, but then we used to sell them some of every
new cpu we developed at least thru the KL10.
Marie
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| 2855.15 | some unix history | MRKTNG::BROCK | Son of a Beech | Fri Apr 22 1994 16:48 | 4 |
| Most of the REAL work was done on a PDP 11/05, then a PDP 11/40 (maybe
a 11/45?). Next major upgrade was to a PDP 11/70 (I sold it), and then,
as indicated earlier, the Interdata 8/32 was purchased (sending panic
throughout Digital). Then a VAX 11/780 (I sold it).
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