Conference 7.286::digital

    How about the Sword of Damocles?

    We don't need another time piece 8}

    
    Alpha - name assigned to the 'brightest star in the constellation'.

    
    ... an inverted pyramid ...
      

    .0 Since the Mill has been sold, it seems that we need a new Icon for
    .0 Digital Equipment Corporation - since we won't have the Mill Tower
    .0 to place on on the goodies we give for longevity of service, etc.
    
    Just because we sold the Mill doesn't mean that we can not still use
    the art work of the Mill Tower.  I still think we could use the art
    work of the Mill Tower - it reminds me of the company roots and the
    start of this company  - $60,000? of venture capital.  Noone can take
    this away from Digital (unless we get bought out...)  

    
    	I personally like the Mill Tower as our "roots", and do not think
    we need to spend money and time on anything else, except a contributory
    401(k) plan.
    
    		the Greyhawk

    .0
    
    Not the Phoenix please...that would be a bad reminder of the closing of
    PNO, Phoenix Manufacturing Plant, for those of us who remain.
    
    
    How about a "Q" rising from the ashes...a Quantum "Q"...for those of us
    soon to dapart.   (---).
    
    Forget the Mill.  Don't be afraid to enter the 20th or even the 21st 
    century.  

    
    How about using the same thing for company icon and prize:
    
    	Bob Palmer's Porche!
    
    
    :-) :-) :-)
    

re:.-1

His "porche" would probably be too big to fit on anything.
;-)

His "porsche" might work...

    What about a coin with two heads........
    
    ie: no tails, grunts, workerbees, ic's, trenchaholics, etc etc etc.
    
    ;^) for those that have had the funnybonectomy.
    
    chet

	We don't need another icon, we need a profitable few quarters.

							mike

    Re: .12 by AXEL::FOLEY
    
    You mean, mint some quarter-sized coins with the words "profitable"
    stamped into them?   :-)
    
    My ideas was to hand out Personal Floatation Devices (PFDs) with
    "Digital" stenciled across them.   Bigwigs would each have one with an
    extra loop for attaching their 'golden parachutes'.   :-)
    

    I remember when we used to hand out the old blue and orange sailboats
    during the LCG haydays with the saying 'sailing through the eighties'
    (What they didn't tell you was that the sailboat was off the TITANIC)
    
    	Never made it through that one either.
    
    chet
    

The ole clock tower is on several items around our house and on the wrist watch 
I wear every day.

I see no problem with keeping it unless the new owners of the mill have a
problem.

But, if someone were to come up with a really neat and meaningful icon, I 
certainly could move on with it.

Fred

    Certainly we keep the clock tower!  Contract it out as necessary ...
    
    Steve

    Who needs a logo for service awards?  No one will be getting them anymore.
    Most of us are just commodities these days, and will soon be replaced 
    by temporary contractors!  All "permanent" employees (managers) will 
    be "released" shortly before their 5th anniversary...Keeps costs down, 
    you know -- no awards, low vacation accruals, never fully vested in 
    retirement, etc.
    
    (to quoth Mickey D's) - Hey, it could happen! :) :) :)
    
    Grinningly yours, 
    
    M.
    

    How about a BURGUNDY clock tower. Replace the old stuffy hr and min
    hands and use a digital clock. Issue corporate wide memo indicating
    icon should be offically referred to as "The Maynard Massachusetts
    Mill Clock Tower Icon". Betya customers will flock to us then!
    
    See -no need to hire outside marketing firm-just send $1M to me
    (direct deposit OK)

       
      logo -how about
      -a fat cat?
      -somebody landing with a parachute(gold of course)
      -26 people sitting round a table
    
    There are all sorts of images that the outsiders have of Digital-only
    WE know the truth ;-}

We should keep the clock but with the hands pointing to one minute to twelve.

Mitchell

    
    Re .14:
    
    C'mon, Chet! It was a yellow/orange/brown sailboat for customers,
    red/white/blue for DECies. I still have mine on my badge -- stained,
    tattered and listing, but afloat.
    
    (Didn't we hand them out at the same DECUS where we announced the
    Jupiter cancellation?)
    
            "Smooth sailing through the '80s...
    
    
    
               Beaucoups bailing through the 90s."
    

I never got a sailboat, but the pen I'm carrying is a 

  Chart your course with Digitasl's LCG keepsake.

I had a hard time finding a refill that would fit it recently.

STAPLES?  Nah, we don't carry that!


I used to have a "smooth sailing" coffee mug, but it broke.
I'm going to try to take better care of my  AVASTOR mug.

For years, I had a PDP-1 manual.  One time, while I was away, the cat
puked (or worse) on it, and I threw it away.  I really wanted to keep
that one.

New Icons?  My shrine is full!

Dave

	I still have my smooth sailing coffee mug.

						mike

I still have my "Digital - The Crescent" coffee mug (Pre-fire!)

David

    
       I still have my Rainbow coffe mug, I let it sit by my DECpc450
    that a friend "loaned" me. Shows the customers who come by daily
    how far we have come.
    
     - Rally round ME!
     - Mike Z.

I still have a VAX DOCUMENT coffee mug.  

It leaks.

    And I still have my Charlie Matco Rumor Roundup mug!

    Watch me pull a computer out of my hat.  
    
    How about Rocky and Bullwinkle.  I have a poster of these superheroes 
    touting the merits of VAXELN Realtime Toolkit. :^)

I Have a coffe mug that says:


		1982
	  CUSTOMER RETURNS
		$5.6M

	       digital

NOTE: The digital logo has square dots but the color of the printing is
      maroon, some one had a vision.

I could never figure out why we were prowd of getting $5,600,000 in returns
from the customer.


Lee (;^)>

    I got TWO LCG coffee mugs, one like the early digital works great,
    one like the current digital, just don't hold water.
    
    I keep em both for the same reason I'm still here. You don't stop
    loving something just cause it's turned bad.
    
    

        I have a "Rainbow Farm Computer" baseball cap.

    I have a "Digital - So Easy To Do Business With" bumper sticker...
    
    sigh.
    

    I still have my autographed copy of the "VAX VOBISCUM" construction
    poster from the "OEM products group", copyright 1977; and I still
    have my "I've been VAXinated" button from BL5 (1 month!) training
    in April of '78 ... both in better condition than I ... 8^)

	Ron

    Lets take the tower down and install it on Fab 6 / HLO3. The past and
    the future all in on location. IMHO RKL.

>    Lets take the tower down and install it on Fab 6 / HLO3. The past and
>    the future all in on location. IMHO RKL.

Great idea, but will the new owner allow it?

    So the rumors of SpookeyWorld moving to HLO3 *are* true...
    ;-)

    RE: -1
    <So the rumors of SpookeyWorld moving to HLO3 *are* true...>
    
    For folks outside of the area. SpookeyWorld is only open evenings in
    October and makes enough money it an 'afford' to be closed the rest of
    the year. Sound like a business model to me. {you also get to se Jason,
    Elvira, and Eddie Munster]

    
    
    Well, I have recieved clock towers for 16 years, (paper,plastic,paper
    with plastic)
    
    Drain the moat around the Mill.. we need a change..
    
    How 'bout contracting Big Ben (looks just like the Mill)
    How 'bout using a Digital Watch (opps, mine can't keep time!)
    How 'bout using the a photo of a cover of that PDP-1 Manual (It kills 
    those anoying bugs!)  
    How 'bout using a Vax as a logo (u know I've lost it!)
    How 'bout using the clock on Parker street, (the one across the
    street from PK01)
    How 'bout using a Taurus Station Wagon (using a Porche would be 
    un'merican!)
    
    How 'bout sending all that money from the proceeds of the sale of
    the Mill to me...... (I need to make a that medical deduction payment!)
    
    
    It's not like anyone else needs the money...........
    
    I agree with a reply I saw in another note ...
    
    Hey, I still think my job is fun!!!!
    
    
    
                      BATMAN
    
    
    

    I still have my "Digital is a Software Company" mug.
    
    on the way out the door,
    ed

    Re .38
    
    How about using a Ford Escort with a Canoe on top ?
    

How about Figure 1?

    I've got a "The Personal VAX" poster from ca 1977, which shows a
    11/780, this goofy guy in an Africa pith helmet, a kid with a teddy
    bear, the LA floor-type console, and RK05(?)'s.
    
    Hey, I also have the PDP11 board game (comes in a cardboard tube).
    
    Jim

    Oh yeah, I forgot, I have Sales Updates from 1978 (introducing TRAX!).
    Jim

I have a "VAX-11/780 Hexadecimal Calendar" (for 1978).

				Steve

I have a poster of a huge KI10 system, taken outside at sunset :^)

It's hanging over a DEC 4000 in my office.

/harley

	I have a framed poster, Count the 8s (a PDP8 contest)  :^)

	-Ken

the new icon:
for what's happening to the mill, and what's happening to DEC:
	a wheelchair

    
    	I have an autograph of KO's on a DECworld '87 poster. And it is NOT
    for sale. Part of my business heros collection. And watch - RP could
    well be next, oh ye of such little faith!
    
    		the Greyhawk
    
    	 

The KI poster shook loose some memories so I thought I would share this...

I have a 4X5 foot picture taken in MR03 of dual KL10's for the TOPS-10
SMP introduction. I was actually up there watching this picture being 
taken [It was quite exciting with all the lights, camera, photographer,
and his crew!]. 

The KL's were in a computer room set [but really off to one side of the
manufacturing floor]... A small corner showing the edge of the fake 
raised computer room floor snuck into the edge of the picture :). I didn't
notice it until quite a while after I hung it up in my computer room
at home!

	Thanks,
		-Stephanie

PS

Ah! to have an SMP system where a crash was only a single processor most
of the time and usually affected only a single user.

	

    Well, as long as we are into 'I have a ...'
    
    I have 
    A hardcover Logic handbook from 1965 (when I was a customer)
    A Visit Beautiful Downtown Maynard poster. 
    An LSI-11 Americas Cup poster "The winning Edge"
    My PDP-12 demo tape.
    A PDP-8 COBOL audio tape
    A TRAX sales notebook.
    more mugs that you can imagine- even a MUG mug from the first MUG
    (Mumps User Group) meeting
    And  two file drawers of similar treasure.
    
    Im waiting for my pewter clock tower replica, promised for last
    February. 

    If by "pewter clock replica" you mean the clock given for 25 year
    veterans of DEC, be forewarned- my father's is broken. He had it
    repaired once and it broke again. Maybe it was an omen- he was laid off
    3 years later.
    
    He had a great collection of DEC memorabilia also.
    
    Linda

And to go along with .50, I have a TRAX-32 manual cover!  (My wife uses it
as a mouse pad on our Macintosh)

				-John

    And I've got a 1964-1984 "20 years of 36-bit computing "
    anniversary wooden pencil holder -- laser etched with a PDP6 
    system and a DECSYSTEM 2065 system.
    
    

    
    I'll see your 36-bit pencil holder and raise you a TRAX poster.
    

    And I have an autographed copy of "VAX/VMS Internals and Data Structures!" 
    
    					{^% andrew %^}

    Where is this string going? - I have a TRAX marketing guide - which I
    used to put together a sales campaign and actually sold one - wonder how
    much that sale cost the company?
    
    Axel 

    Re .55
    And I wonder who's autograph, and which version  }9-)}
    
    Bill
    

    	How about the hammer and sickle? It's not being used anymore...