4 Mar
2013
4 Mar
'13
9:14 p.m.
Sorry for the side bar for those of you never been to Cambridge, MA -- but this is true
DEC history ...
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 2:44 PM, John Wilson <wilson at dbit.com> wrote:
www.eli.com. I assume it's just "& son" now (Neal Heffron I think?
he was cool). Their *awesome* dusty old shop is long gone
check out: http://www.eli.com/index.cfm?template=history
The old man was the first DEC reseller.
The old warehouse is still there. The son tried to get into the PC business in the late
80s and the shop that had all the cool old 'tronics in it closed, since the PC
customers did not like the dirty and dark. Like John, other of us
"nerdi" knights knew it as a holy place.
Clem
FYI: I bought my still working Tek 465B o'scope for $25 long ago (and it still has a
DEC asset tag on the back ;-)
I still use to debug HW.