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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 - 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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