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The DEC ConnectionTM Promo Museum
Announcing a fun feature on our website - the "DECconnection Promo
Museum"! If you have cherished memories regarding some promotional
memorabilia or souvenirs
- books, mugs, t-shirts, widgets or gadgets, etc. - take a digital photo of the
item (you can be wearing it) and send the photo (.jpg or .gif) with 1-2
lines of description to webmaster@decconnection.org. Thanks to Mary Cole for this great suggestion - her submissions are
below. Click on an item for a larger image.
Thanks to Mel and Nancy Woolsey for
contributing their collection of over 50 pix of promotional mugs and
buttons. Here is their gallery - please send in yours!
Bob Moore sent in these two items: an
ALL-IN-1 portfolio and a really handsome belt buckle of the clock tower:
"I got the belt buckle when I had been at DEC 5
years. I think I got some piece of paper congratulating me on the
achievement. That was 26 years ago. Still wear that buckle when we square
dance and to any DECconnection social fun time event, i.e., NH wine tasting.
The blue ALL-IN-1 nylon bag was a promotion item that I have had forever.
Memories of ALL-IN-1 are another fun trip when I get together with others
who were there. A non-engineered product that did well for Digital a lot of
places including the office of our president. The bag was roughly 11x16x4".
I still bring to our Board meetings with essential stuff I feel I might
need."
Peg Masjoan is the model for this LA50
brochure. Peg worked in Logistics in
the Components Group at the time: It was taken around 1983 or 84 by Charlie
Schramek of Terminals Marketing. He approached me and asked if I'd like to
be in a photo shoot he was doing for a brochure for Select (word processing)
and Multiplan (spreadsheet) to promote the programs for the Rainbow. The
Rainbow they used in the shoot was a prototype - but the LA50 was a
production model and was prominently displayed. I didn't realize until about
6 months later when I went to another building to visit former co-workers
that the picture was used for the LA50 brochure! I happily autographed a few
of the brochures for my friends!
Steve Greenberg offers this Silicon Mountain
mug from the Semiconductor Engineering Group in Hudson, MA. "The graphic
on one side of the cup represents Silicon Mountain which was coined to be
the East Coast balance to California's Silicon Valley. The Hudson location
is at the top of a hill."
Mary Ellen Kennedy found this video on YouTube
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it's a DEC ad from 1994 called "Glimpse of the Future."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1l6aBgX5UY&eurl=http://www.downloadsquad.com/2007/07/12/this-is-what-the-web-looked-like-in-1994/
"MCS on the Move" - submitted by David Fairman of Australia - This is a
promo shirt from the heady days of Multivendor Customer Services "MCS on the
Move" in Japan, circa 1988 or thereabouts. Still looks in pretty good
condition, like most things with a Digital logo, it was meant to last!
VAX VMS at 20 -
by Jim Rainville. Download here.
Mary Cole's submissions: the PDP
OEM Yardstick and CSI Business Card Case, both from the mid-1970s!
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