Wow, I remember that snow storm oh too well. I was attending class at the Data
General site and it to over 8 hours to go from there to my hotel in Framingham.
If I remember correctly we got 42" of snow in a 24 hour period and it closed the
whole eastern half of the state down for the remainder of the week. It took 3
days before the snow compacted down enough for me to find my rental car and dig
it out. On the positive side my hotel had just got a food and liquor delivery
on the morning of the storm. When I got back to the hotel I sure did enjoy the
HOT shower, Steak and bottle of wine. ;-) I'm loving this thread, I worked on
DG equipment for 6 years in the late 70s and early 80s. Brings back a lot of
memories.
Steve
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From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of F.
Alfredo Rego
Sent: Thursday, August 05, 2004 12:41 PM
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Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] Data General History
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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