And, then, the paper notes that there are three types of corporate culture in the computing industry: marketing, technology, and financial. DEC was a technology shop, a board shop, as friend Tom described it, down to its corporate DNA. The next lines are heart-breakingly prescient:
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I hope I am the "friend Tom" who identified DEC as "a board shop". My first work at DEC was in the Mill where the board shop continued to be located and the impact on the culture was palpable, to see those nice working-class folks with their two-digit badge numbers soldering away.
--Affectionately, 75411
Yep, you're source of this (and many other) quotes.
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