im a decendabt of mary Ellen Edith maynard who was born 1863 in battersea surrey england and married charles humphrey penfold then moved to new zealand

Interesting presentation. I grew up in Detroit, graduated High School in spring 1972, and after earning my computer tech certificate at CDI in Oct '73, started work for DEC in its Maynard module repair depot in Dec 1973. Badge 22229. Worked there and took training for three years, living in Hudson in a rented cottage on Lake Boon. Saw KO shuffling through the repair depot maybe two or three times, open suit coat flapping with his arm movements. Xferred back to Detroit in Dec 1976 to work in PDP-11 field service. Some may not know that the company helicopter was not just for executives an such, it was open for use by any employee, and I used it several times, from the Parker St helipad. Did various kinds of field service work until DEC got sold to Compaq in 1988. Worked on for Compaq until they lost the contract I was working on to IBM in Y2K. Went over to IBM and worked there until early 2004, when they lost the contract to HP. But, alas, the contract wound up being broken up between several companies. Decided to exit that trade at that time, and become a Barber. In one of my many camping trips and visits back to the area, did "A Walk Through The Mill" guided tour, in about 1992. Highlight was climbing up into the clock tower, and doing one circular wind of the clock. Among the vip names on the tower inside walls was that of Henry Ford.

I worked for DEC for 4years; (1975-79) one in the greater Washington, DC area, then went to GIA (General International Area based in PK3) and joined the Flying Squad. Such a fantastic company with great people!!

This was great thank u!

Such a good watch. Thanks!

Thank you for sgaring this talk with Dr. Tallamy. I have learned so much.

I am the descendant of John and Frankie Maynard

About 8:00 and slightly before, Aulikki is not pronounced particularly close to how it is in this video, rather it is AU-lik-KI so the emphasis is 'hard' on AU and KI, not LIK as pronounced here. Basically the exact _opposite_ of how it is pronounced here. Speaker here pronounces it au-LIK-ki, as mentioned it should be AU-lik-KI. This is not unimportant, since for a native speaker of Finnish the speaker is sayin (au)LEAK(i) which isn't even close. What comes out would be written alekki roughly which is much much closer to the male name Aleksi than it is to Aulikki. Pronunciation pro-tip for Finnish, think of it in phonemes like Japanese, and clearly pronounce them all. It is _not_ an indoeuropean language with silent letters and similar nonsense, it is written phonetically in phonemes like you would write Japanese in Romaji script.

Definitely has Maynard features. 😊

Yes, he is new to me...excellent commentary. In awe.

My Dad worked for Digital. I want to say from 1980 until late 90s until they were bought by Compaq. I forgot his role, I think he was systems or software engineer. As for location, he worked at the San Diego, CA office in Kearny Mesa on Kearny Villa Road. I born in '83 so I was still a kid and have limited memory of those days. I remember going to work with him sometimes on the weekends. That office campus was pretty big at the time. I think they occupied 3 buildings on the lot. I remember him bringing home weird random hardware; servers, laptops, desktops. I think they were either dev kits or some kind of beta testing. I remember the company being very generous on his tenure and great perks. Company gifts, vacation trips, car discounts from local dealership.

I worked for DEC for 24 years, starting in the early 80's. I started in field service eventually working my way up to software engineering at ZK3. It was a time and a company where you could interview for any position you thought you were qualified to do and be able to move into that position. I took advantage of that, taking opportunities as they came up. We had the best products, but management failed to see the changes in the industry. Compaq and HP were arguably worse. The project I was working on was cut in the mid 2000s resulting in the entire organization being "laid off" (AKA fired). The good things about the layoffs was a very generous severance package and a great network of colleagues. I got my first and second post-DEC jobs, the latter I'm still doing off of recommendations from people I worked with at DEC.

Best 10 years of my career were the ones at DEC.

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7:12 Was Ken Olsen’s wife seriously named Aulikki Valve?? It’s like one of those joke names, a leaky valve 😂

Thanks so much for introducing us to this creative genius. Jw

This was incredible! Thanks for sharing.

Thank you for such an informative description of Edward hopper and his work. Well done.

Then, why are you showing a vt100😂 kidding thanks for the video. Awesome job.

I started working for Digital en 1976 in Maynard Massachussets, then I got transferred to Nashua New Hampshire, then I got transferred to NY. DEC the best American Company that ever existed in USA. I remembered when I met Mr. Ken Olsen, he was a gentleman. in one of his speeches he said that the best assets the Company had was the people. God Bless his soul. He was people oriented. I really miss that Company. I left the company in 1995.

Excellent! Thank you!! From New Zealand. Re: another comment, I also thought of the faded glue paper on windows, but concur it was done deliberately, his subtle aside to modernism: 'will you see it?' ''when did I ever do grubby?' nothing else in his paintings appears grubby; only stark, vital, only precise. there is no other deterioration in any other painting. the worn through filters may even have existed, but perhaps this is a foil! even his paper filters would have been perfect? The lonely 'sunday morning' empty stores, was followed immediately by photo of his house, they look the same! Now you've expressed it, thank you again, I think his whole ouevre is impressionist modernism.

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Enjoyable talk, excellent speaker. I second the woman's comment at 1:12:43.

What a wonderful presentation! I learnt so much and curious now to know more. Many thanks for making it public.

Another short DEC story. I finished my DEC career working for Digital's CSS, the customer solutions division. Trivia note: The computer voice you hear in the future scenes of the movie Back To The Future II is DECvoice.

I joined DEC in 1983 in sales in the Los Angeles office. I came over from HP a California company. In walking into the office either the Orange County office or the LA office you would see a sea of Green Celtics banners hanging everywhere. That was when the Lakers and Celtics were battling. DEC's ISDP Progarm that of giving employees a promotional career path resulted that many of the office employees were from Maynard or Boston. That was my culture shock. But I came to love the difference. Bob

AS MY PAINTINGS ARE OFTEN COMPARED TO EDWARD HOPPER'S, YOU MIGHT ENJOY SEEING THEM. MAX FERGUSON

This was invaluable! Thank you for sharing this so we can all enjoy and learn about this fascinating family even if we're not local to the library.

I worked for DEC for 6 years. Olson came up in 1987 and told everyone, when asked about PCs, "The PC is a dying fad" I started looking for a new job but wound up starting my own computer and supplies biz.

I think people tend to confuse solitude with loneliness . Hopper’s pictures show solitude, but are the people lonely? I don’t think so. Today in our overcrowded world the concept of solitude is often much desired.

I had a summer job at DEC in '76, working at The Annex in Maynard MA doing Module Repair. Great summer job but most of my coworkers were nosey old ladies. Had some good times at the "Ye Olde Towne House Pub" across from the Mill. Great local bands played there. I lived in Natick then, it was a long ride

Thanks to all for this wonderful documentary and testimonial. I looked up CPUWARS and found it. Go to the wikipedia page and in the references you will find a link to "the comic online". Wishing all the best to all of you and all the participants and past members of DEC!

This and the Hopper lecture from the same series are electrifying. Thank you so much for uploading. Im a broke college grad so im not able to travel and see these works in person.

Thank you for uploading, I really appreciated learning more about this amazing artist!

I was a tech for DEC, starting in H/W installs and progressing to Ops Analyst for Field Service in the Mid-Atlantic area. DEC was the greatest work environment. It was sad how the co. collapsed. Cheers to all former DEC employees. 128007

The destruction of Digital is an unpunished capital crime in Amercian business history.

DEC the very best company ever existed. I worked there for 20 years. That company was people oriented. Mr Olsen had a heart of gold (RIP,) he was humble with great precensel.

I am an artist on Cape Cod. I enjoyed the talk very much. Thanks for posting. BTW- the Hopper's house in Truro is still there, largely unchanged. It was left to friends after the Hopper's passing. And I wanted to point out that you said the painting "Rooms for Tourists" may have been Gloucester. It is in fact 142 Bradford Street in Provincetown, now called the Sunset Inn. It also still looks very much the same as it did when Hopper painted it. There is a woman who gives a wonderful tour around Truro, visiting places Hopper painted. Hopper House Tours with Beth Chapman. If you can arrange to go out with her, it's a lot of fun and very imformative!

When I see an Ed hopper work it’s like a silent scream of loneliness. I hear the tinnitus in my ears because it appears so loudly quiet.

Just found this. Thanks for the interesting talk - learned a lot!

A very great man indeed 20 year it was a pleasure 146486

Started in 80' and went through the compaq and hp acquisitions. best times and the worst times. orc in nso and nio. spent time off 101a.

1980 I remember digital. They were the first to create the pdp at usc and the creation of the first internet . I used Unix at Cerritos college and 1995. Remember Cisco routers. I installed networks for walmart which today is networked all over United States.. Downey California

So many familiar faces! Great video! And it's so perfect that it began with Mr. Mark playing celebratory kazoo music!

I worked for Digital in Canada for 20 years. It was a wonderful company to work for at the time.

Thank you for this. I lived in Maynard during this time as my mom worked at Digital.

Insightful and comprehensive discussion, direct, clear, smart and (TG!) NOT pretentious. (I personally don't see the "dabbling in Kandinski" theory. Those windows look like they were whitewashed OR painted over for decorative effect for the presentation of the exterior---with a pale yellow?---perhaps years earlier and fading, or the result of glue that has browned somewhat, as if a thin sheet of paper or some such had been glued there, and now showing the aging, darkening effects of sunlight on it. I've seen a lot of old glue smears over the years, as they often have that exact same look as the glue begins to darken and 'print through" whatever it was adhered to as time goes on. A covering may've been put on the lower windows to provide a little privacy to the customers, or to block some kind of light that may've started to shine into the room from some outside business, car headlights or something similar. Or maybe just to subdue the lights of the restaurant's own sign that is so close, just outside the window, especially if it had a blinking light component.) Ok, enough blab about that detail! Just my own theory. Thanks for the talk. It is well appreciated.

Great lecture thank you very much

As the last President of the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society (DECUS) I will always treasure my memories of those years!

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