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The DEC ConnectionTM Promo Museum
Announcing a fun new 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. Tell us if you want your
name and organization to appear with the article as the contributor.
Thanks to Mary Cole for this great suggestion - her submissions are
below.
Click on an item for a larger image.
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 submissions: the PDP
OEM Yardstick and CSI Business Card Case, both from the mid-1970s!
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