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| 2949.1 | credit where credit is due | SMAUG::GARROD | DCU Board of Director's Candidate | Tue Mar 22 1994 00:06 | 17 |
| From: SMAUG::GARROD "Candidate for the DCU Board of Directors 21-Mar-1994 2058 -0500" 21-MAR-1994 21:04:42.42
To: MTS$::"OGO::ENRICO PESATORI"
CC: GARROD
Subj: A very well done Winter PC catalog
To: The office of Enrico Pesatori
I just received Digital's winter PC catalogue. As an employee of Digital
seeing such a high quality advertising piece made me feel good about the
company. I would appreciate it if you could forward the following to the
people responsible for this catalogue. I feel they've done an excellent job
and are well worthy of praise, as is the whole PC division.
Dave Garrod
Networks Engineering
[.0 was attached]
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| 2949.2 | | HYDRA::BECK | Apprentice caber catcher | Tue Mar 22 1994 02:09 | 5 |
| I particularly liked the volume discount on DECwrite, listed as:
DECwrite V2.0 for Windows, Volume Discount: 10 copies for $254 each -- $2362
(You can sort of tell that DECwrite isn't a math package.)
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| 2949.3 | The technical explanation | LATVMS::BRANAM | | Tue Mar 22 1994 15:21 | 5 |
| Those are IAPX Virtual dollars. You set the DS register (dollar
segment register) to the number of dollars, which is multiplied
by the VM (volume mapping) register, using the virtual mapping
factor of 1.07539865. Really, this is all well-established computer
science, as naturally as 2^16 is 65536.
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| 2949.4 | PC sales = Alpha? | ODIXIE::PERRAULT | | Tue Mar 22 1994 16:01 | 6 |
| An interesting bit of info. regarding the PC unit. If all alpha sales
are currently "about" $2.0b and PC business is expected to be in that
range, then the other $10.0 (total $14.0b) is not very clear. I know
that Alpha sales are ramping up, but that will be a steep climb.
Just an observation.
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| 2949.5 | from 4B to 14B | OZROCK::FARAGO | FY94 HW$6B SW$4B Serv$7B | Wed Mar 23 1994 03:13 | 20 |
| > An interesting bit of info. regarding the PC unit. If all alpha sales
> are currently "about" $2.0b and PC business is expected to be in that
> range, then the other $10.0 (total $14.0b) is not very clear. I know
> that Alpha sales are ramping up, but that will be a steep climb.
There's still a bunch of VAX sales, storage, components & services.
From the last Palmer DVN the breakdown of the company was the following:
Systems BU 40% (VAX and Alpha systems, software & networks)
PC BU 10%
Storage BU 9%
Components & Periph 9%
Digital Consulting 14%
MCS 30%
counted twice 12%-
regards,
Robert
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| 2949.6 | message received and appreciated | SMAUG::GARROD | DCU Board of Directors Candidate | Sat Mar 26 1994 02:47 | 36 |
| I got the attached reply from the person that handles Enrico's mail.
I'm glad the catalogues designers got to see the feedback.
Dave
PS A note to the moderator. No I didn't explicitly ask if I could post
this mail message here. If that is a problem just delete this
reply, it's not worth bothering anybody to try and get explicit
permission.
From: LKGMTS::LKGMTS::MRGATE::"MLMAIL::PNDVUEA1::PESATORI.ENRICO" 24-MAR-1994 19:04:49.36
To: SMAUG::GARROD
CC:
Subj: RE: A very well done Winter PC catalog
From: NAME: Enrico Pesatori @MLO
FUNC: Personal Computer Business Unit
TEL: 223-9040 <PESATORI.ENRICO AT PNDVUEA1 at MLMAIL at MLO>
To: NAME: GARROD <GARROD@SMAUG@MRGATE@LKGMTS@LKG>
Dear Dave,
Message received! We do, in fact, know who is responsible for the catalog
design. We copied them and they were delighted with your mail!
On behalf of the team, and for myself, I thank you for taking the time to send
off such positive feedback.
Keep those cards and letters coming!
Best regards,
Enrico Pesatori
/ct
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| 2949.7 | Signs of hope... | HANNAH::SICHEL | All things are connected. | Tue Apr 05 1994 01:13 | 7 |
| It will be a steep climb, but it's nice to see some units turning around.
The PC BU at 10% is just about breaking even.
The Video segment of Components & Periph, about 5% is running close to 30% PBT.
The biggest problem we still need to work on is the Systems BU.
- Peter
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| 2949.8 | BRAND it ! | ELMAGO::PUSSERY | | Fri Apr 08 1994 19:53 | 21 |
|
Maybe not the right note, but not being a Marketing buff, I just
wanted to ask 'Whom' might be able to get a DECpc AXP 150 medallion
on the front of the box used for the DEC Professional April '94 mag.
Page 51 has a picture of the "AXP 150" that's missing a medallion in
the front. Could be an Intel inside, a Pentium, a 433ST, etc,etc.
Just in case they wanted to use that machine for another
picture in the near future. Probably not a big deal to most, but
with all the flavors I see go down the line, the Medallion is the
only thing that tells me what's inside. (Except of course the
Intel Inside sticker that goes on the front panel, and the outside
of the shipping box.)
I can't wait to see what's in the works for the
AlphaGeneration stickers and T-shirts, but I hope they remember
to stick 'em on anything that moves off that production line.
Pablo
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| 2949.9 | when will we see a DEC PC stores? | STAR::ABBASI | iam thinking about doing it | Fri Apr 08 1994 20:06 | 16 |
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why don't DEC open a DEC PC stores to sell its PC's related equipment?
if DEC starts by opening one or 2 stores in masusususteteetsts as a
trial basis to see how they work out, may be if they are successful
they can open more stores through the country.
i'v used to see IBM PC stores (have not seen some for a while though),
so, why can't DEC open a PC stores? it can;t cost that much to do and
it will help spread the word about our PC's to the public also. i
suggest to open the store in big busy mall, and fill it with our PC's
and printers and stuff like that.
why no one have thought of this before?
\nasser
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| 2949.10 | | BAYES::BOM_SQUAD | | Fri Apr 08 1994 20:24 | 18 |
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> why don't DEC open a DEC PC stores to sell its PC's related equipment?
>
> if DEC starts by opening one or 2 stores in masusususteteetsts as a
> trial basis to see how they work out, may be if they are successful
> they can open more stores through the country.
>
> i'v used to see IBM PC stores (have not seen some for a while though),
> so, why can't DEC open a PC stores? it can;t cost that much to do and
> it will help spread the word about our PC's to the public also. i
> suggest to open the store in big busy mall, and fill it with our PC's
> and printers and stuff like that.
>
> why no one have thought of this before?
Someone Did think of this before.We had Stores in masusususteteetsts
and NEEEHamshire.
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| 2949.11 | Here too... | SWAM1::BASURA_BR | Politicians Prefer Unarmed Peasants | Fri Apr 08 1994 20:41 | 1 |
| and California...
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| 2949.12 | | TRUCKS::WINWOOD | A Legend is Afoot | Sat Apr 09 1994 13:45 | 3 |
| and now, according to ROMTEC Digital is in the top 10 at number 9
in the UK.
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| 2949.13 | Leave the retailing to retailers! | USHS01::HARDMAN | Massive Action = Massive Results | Sat Apr 09 1994 22:11 | 16 |
| Why would Digital need PC stores? IBM doesn't have 'em, Compaq doesn't
have 'em, Dell doesn't have 'em, Gateway doesn't...... Get my point?
There are zillions of PC retailers out there, selling any and every
brand they can get their hands on. We just need to get Digital products
into THEIR stores. Then they can carry the overhead of retail space,
constant employee turnover, inventory (that often sells below cost as
prices drop so fast!), etc. Digital needs to focus on making computers.
Let the folks that are in the retail business do the retailing. (Even
Wal-Mart is selling PC's now!)
Digital PC's are showing up in some of the local retail ads in the
daily business section of the Houston papers. At last...
Harry
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| 2949.14 | | MSE1::PCOTE | Progammer-side air bag in place | Mon Apr 11 1994 12:55 | 14 |
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> Why would Digital need PC stores? IBM doesn't have 'em, Compaq doesn't
IBM does have something called an outlet store. (albeit a few) I
saw this a few weeks ago on some TV magazine show. I think it was
way to (cheaply) deal some of their excess inventory.
But, more to the point, I do agree that getting our products to
retails stores should be the focus. And from what I've heard, it
will happen fairly soon.
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| 2949.15 | | QUARK::LIONEL | Free advice is worth every cent | Mon Apr 11 1994 13:49 | 9 |
| IBM has only one outlet store - just opened.
We don't need a Digital PC store - we need to have our products alongside
Dell, Compaq and IBM in the existing superstores which have a much larger
customer base than we could ever dream of getting with our own stores.
We do have products which can be competitive in these markets.
Steve
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| 2949.16 | There are already enough stores | USHS01::HARDMAN | Massive Action = Massive Results | Mon Apr 11 1994 16:15 | 13 |
| Yesterday, I was checking out the PC's available at the local Sam's
Warehouse Club. They had IBM, Compaq, Dell, ALR and Packard Bell
systems available. (The best deal I saw was a Compaq 486 DX2/50 with
two floppy drives, 340 meg hard drive, 8 meg of ram and a 15 inch
monitor capable of up to 1024x768 display. All for $1,699!) No way
would a single-vendor retail store be able to compete with places like
this.
Digital needs to have their systems sitting next to those other brands
in existing outlets!!!
Harry
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| 2949.17 | | GRANPA::TDAVIS | | Mon Apr 11 1994 16:20 | 1 |
| I hear soon we will also be in Sam's, as part of a new retail thrust.
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| 2949.18 | | STAR::ABBASI | iam thinking about doing it | Mon Apr 11 1994 16:27 | 9 |
| i read that we now sell DEC printers at Lechmiere store here in
pleasent lane mall in nashua (near ZKO) at the boarder of new hamshire
and massesususteetets.
i wonder what took us sooo long to put our printers for sale in the
mall and why we did not do this years ago ?
\nasser
the_proud_owner_of_a_DEC_jet_ink_2000_printer
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| 2949.19 | | MILKWY::ED_ECK | Generation X < Group W! | Mon Apr 11 1994 16:46 | 6 |
|
Lechmiere in Framingham, MA. has had DEC printers for
a long time--maybe over a year.
Someone even fixed the sales demo unit so it doesn't wrinkle
the paper anymore.
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| 2949.20 | next BJ's Sams...? | CAPL::LANDRY_D | Warbirds 1939-1945 | Tue Apr 12 1994 16:14 | 1 |
| Lechemere Greendale Mall Worcester has had them prolly year also :^)
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