From: Richard Seltzer <seltzer@samizdat.com>
Subject: Chat reminder: Thursday, Dec. 7, DEC/Digital 
Date: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 11:14 AM



*** BUSINESS ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB -- WHERE WORD OF KEYSTROKE BEGINS ***

Please join us this Thursday, December 7 to chat about the fate of
DEC/Digital.

An editor at Wiley has expressed interest in my proposed book "DEC, not
Digital". So I'm rethinking what needs to be said and how. 

At this point, it looks like the book might falling into two parts:
opportunities found and opportunities lost.

"Found" might include:
timesharing (10s and 20s)
PDP-11 (minicomputers)
VAX (departmental computing)
All-In-1 (office)

"Lost" might include:
notes
PCs (both too late and too early, 3 is less than 1, CP/M, etc.)
UNIX
Alpha
Internet
AltaVista

How does this feel to you? Am I missing major episodes?

My intention is to tell the story from the perspective of the people in
the trenches rather than the folks in the board room. If you have
suggestions regarding what should and shouldn't be included and/or if you
would like me to interview you regarding one or more of these topics,
please let me know.

Also, please take a look at the intro http://www.samizdat.com/dec.html and
my notes about the history of DEC's Internet Business Group at
http://www.samizdat.com/ibg.html. Then please look at the reactions and
add your comments in the related discussion space at
http://webworkzone.com/bootcamp/dispatch.cgi/manual (I'm using SiteScape
Forum, the new incarnation of Workgroup Webforum).

Please note that we are now holding these chat sessions at a new
discussion space hosted by SiteScape. 
To go right to this week's chat area, you should go by way of our chat
introduction page -- http://www.samizdat.com/chat-intro.html

These chat sessions take place Thursdays 12 noon-1 PM (US
Eastern Standard Time = GMT -5). 

Complete, edited transcripts of past sessions are available at 
http://www.samizdat.com/chat.html You can also see our upcoming schedule
of topics there. 

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for future topics, and requests to receive email reminders about upcoming 
sessions. 

Best wishes.

Richard Seltzer, seltzer@samizdat.com, http://www.samizdat.com
Internet marketing consultant http://www.samizdat.com/consult.html
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