At 8:44 -0700 8/5/04, Penney, John wrote:

>Can anyone please direct me to some authority on the history of DG? I just
>finished The Soul of A New Machine, Tracy Kidder, '81, and wanted to follow
>what happened to the company on its road to wherever. It is interesting to
>note that DG had a 32 bit 'supermini' 8 years before HP did. Fat lot of good
>it did them. 'Course the same can be said now for HP! Irony upon irony!

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/print/0,15935,434515,00.html

I had the pleasure of visiting the Data General headquarters
during the GREAT (and I mean *great*) Boston snow storm of
February 1978.  Edson de Castro (just before the storm, of course)
would fly in and out in his helicopter.  We chatted in a
"creative" mixture of Portuguese and Spanish.

Thanks for bringing back fond memories, John.

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 |            r  |  Alfredo                  http://www.adager.com
 |          e    |
 |        g      |  F. Alfredo Rego
 |      a        |  Manager, R & D Labs
 |    d          |  Adager Corporation
 |  A            |  Sun Valley, Idaho 83353-3000            U.S.A.
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