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| From | Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: DEC wash better than you ordinary detergent |
| Date | 2021-01-20 20:06 -0500 |
| Organization | PANIX Public Access Internet and UNIX, NYC |
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scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
> Rich Alderson <news@alderson.users.panix.com> writes:
>> Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> writes:
>>> On Friday, January 15, 2021 at 2:45:21 AM UTC-7, Thomas Koenig wrote:
>>>> Did these commercials actually run? And who were they aimed at?
>>> They weren't shown on television. Apparently they were used internally
>>> at some sort of Digial event to amuse the attendees.
>>> John Savard
>> Presumably DECworld, an annual sales meeting.
>> Len Bosack and I attended DECworld 2001, a DEC reunion event which was held
>> at Moffett Field (the then recently decommissioned U-2 airfield in Mountain
>> View,
> Moffett Field was a Naval Air Station, which hosted a couple of P-3 subhunter
> squadrons before being decommissioned twenty years ago. The only time U-2
> would have used it would be for emergency landings or air shows. The U-2's
> fly out of Beale AFB near Sacramento.
I lived within walking distance of Moffett Field from 1984-1993, and attended
several Naval air shows there. It was also home to Onizuka Air Force Base,
which suddenly appeared on highway signs after the fall of the Berlin Wall; it
was the big windwless cube surrounded by dozens of satellite antennae off in
one corner of the facility.
There were more than a few U-2 flights out of Moffett. They were one of the
worst kept secrets around; people used to stay up late to watch the Goonie
Birds take off for entertainment.
The P-3's were a lot of fun.
--
Rich Alderson news@alderson.users.panix.com
Audendum est, et veritas investiganda; quam etiamsi non assequamur,
omnino tamen proprius, quam nunc sumus, ad eam perveniemus.
--Galen
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