Conference 7.286::digital

    Considering that said space used to be a Caldor discount store (and
    an A&P across the parking lot) it sounds reasonable.
    
    			Steve

    When I was in facilities, Digital used to pay between $20 to $30+ per
    Sq Ft PER YEAR for leased space. Of course that was before the
    commercial real estate collapse (savings & loan debacle) and Digital put
    everything around Route 495 into play.

	Wow, memories of Tewksbury. The land of no windows. Got real
	dark, real quick if you lost power..

							mike

I was one of the first Digital residents of the A&P building of
Tewksbury. For a number of months after I moved in, there was a major problem
with fruit flies in my office cube! I must have been in the produce department.

I moved to other facilities after a couple of years, then moved back into
the "Caldor" building about five years ago. It seemed to me that the building
still smelled of the stale sizing that they put on cheap clothing to make it
appear neatly pressed while it hangs on the stores racks.

During my last days there, I also noticed a tendency for the airconditioning
units to suck in deisel fumes from the trucks backed up from the 
intersection of 495 and 93 bridge construction that took forever.

In general, the physical plant sucked, but the atmosphere created by the
people who worked there always made it a bearable, and often even a
pleasant place to work.

Rick

>	Wow, memories of Tewksbury. The land of no windows. Got real
>	dark, real quick if you lost power..

	... and you lost power a *lot*!  Our system management team all expensed
big flashlights so we could get to the machines in a hurry in a blackout since
the lab had no protection from off/on/off/on/off and we had a pile of RA82s.
Used to average 1 lost HDA a month.

	The lab was trip too - the humidity from the concrete slab used to
cause the adhesive for the anti-static tiles to ooze up between the cracks.
The local field service folks called our lab "The Swamp."


	I was there when they put the windows in -- I seem to recall that they
breached the walls fairly late in the year.  It was a blast working in all the
dust.


					--Doug

>	... and you lost power a *lot*!  Our system management team all expensed

  Why did TWO lose power a lot? Was it because the substation serving it was
built to supply a shopping center and was not up to supplying the higher load
of a Digital facility?
  Converted shopping centers tend to have facility problems. And we have had
plants in a LOT of converted shopping centers over the years. Westboro Plaza 
and Acton/Piper Road are two that come to mind.

    Also the road behind the bldg. used to be a shortcut for getting from
    133 to North St. and Wang......until d i g i t a l put up the gate
    after some kid in a pick-up raced thru there and took down a power pole
    with a transformer on it and gave us an extra holiday. I really liked
    the place.....thems were good times then.

    
    re: .5
    
    Hey, Doug, I've still got jeans with "swamp ooze" permanently embedded
    in the knees :-)
    
    I was sitting in a corner office when the windows were installed - they
    put the glass in the things about 2 days before the first snowfall.  I
    recall wearing gloves and a parka at work for a couple of weeks. 
    (Hacking in mittens is a *drag* :-)
    
    
    				/Rita (one of the flashlight wielders)
    

    
    Does this mean my "Nuke Tewksbury" tshirt is now a collector's item?
    
    

    
        Isn't $5.8M more than we got for that huge Mill? :-)
    
                    Mark

Yes. I sold it!!!

Mark Coffey