Last night Ken Paul asked:

> ... Rich Sevcik once stated publicly that there would
> NOT be diagnostic passwords on the 3000.  Does anyone
> remember where and when this was said and more
> importantly if it was then put on a transcript or
> published in some Interex publication?
> ....
> My memory is that it was at some event in the mid 1990s
> but in could have been at an HP World/Interex in 1994/95
> or 96 at the Management Roundtable.

I was at the Roundtable at HP World where I can remember
being in the audience and hearing him say it.  This might
not be an exact quote (too long ago), but in answer to
whoever asked the question (Stan ??), my recollection is
that Sevcik's answer was ~"We have no plans to password
the system diagnostics".  Again IIRC, it was not long
after that statement that passwords were added after all.

I can't recall OTT exactly which HPW, but you have the
timeframe about right...  Note that google finds Rich
Sevcik making a PR statement for Xilinx by October 1997,
so it was earlier than that.  Plus I *think* it was before
1996 Anahiem HPW (first one called HPW (better recalled as
"the year of the mega poster"  :-)  )).  It was NOT in
1995, because Interex 1995 was in Toronto and I missed
that one.  Interex 1994 was in Denver; 1993 was in San
Fran..  I would place a small bet that Sevcik's statement
occurred in 1993 or 1994...  But I won't bet the ranch
against Anahiem either...  Surely it wasn't as long ago
as Interex 1992 (Hurricane Andrew) ??..

The major roundtables have been recorded by Interex for a
long time, but who knows what records still exist from
that many years ago...

Ken Sletten

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