WARNING: This may be an out-of-date copy of the DWSALUM website. Verizon isn't letting users FTP their HTML files up to the website anymore, making everyone use it's brain-dead SiteBuilder tool. Stupid, stupid, stupid! I've got the contents of this file moved up to http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1than/dwsalum_new.htm/ (note the terminal slash) but it's butt-ugly (just an expression, some of you, er, never mind). If the date on this current file remains "19 August 2011" then try the new URL. I'll get this straightened out sometime, or move to a different hosting service.

DIGITAL Workstations Engineering Alumni & Alumnae Page

updated 19 August 2011

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2011 Reunion

This year's reunion will be on Wednesday, 07 September 2011, at the Pleasant Cafe, 36 Main Street, Maynard MA. Just show up "after work". Folks get there anywhere between 5:00 and 8:00 PM, and leave between 6:00 and 9:00 -- with some "long tail" arrivals and departures. It goes without saying that we'll be remembering Ken Olson and others from our community. Bring your best stories.

For info about previous reunions, see 2010 attendees, no reunion in 2009 (Your Friendly Moderator was busy, or just lazy), 2008 attendees, 2007 attendees, 2006 attendees, 2005 attendees, 2005 pix.

I'll update this page with contact updates when I get a chance (meaning, just before the next reunion).

Anyone want to take over DWSALUM?

I'm looking to pass the baton of ad hoc Social Director, Webmaster, Moderator, Lost&Found clerk, and whatever else it is that I do. Any takers? I would appreciate someone stepping up so this community doesn't fade away simply because no one's watching out for it.

This would involve moving the dwsalum.htm site to your account (I'll leave a forwarding pointer up as long as Verizon's my ISP); rewriting the HTML however you want (I've always aimed for function over form, but I'm just a crusty old fart); getting all the pesky emails and telling people why you won't send their email to everyone on the list; updating the contact list periodically (I generally only do it just before the reunion); moderating the dwsalum Yahoo! group mailing list; calling Frank at the Pleasant Cafe to set a date for the reunion; sending out several reunion reminders; and whatever comes into your head.

Yahoo! Groups mailing list, dwsalum

I set up a Yahoo! group as a DWS alumni/ae members-only mailing list. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dwsalum to figure out how to join, or send email to dwsalum-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

If you are wise in the ways of this techie stuff, as with the dwsalum web site, let me know who you are and why you should be allowed access to this list. If you're already on the dwsalum web site, you don't have to provide much in the way of justification. If your email address is not immediately recognizable, then you do have to tell me who you are. Sometimes email is sent to Your Friendly Moderator to approve membership requests, and sometimes the request just shows up in the Pending Approval list when YFM visits the group -- if you don't get approved right away you probably fell into the latter category so send me email directly and I'll take care of it.

Read the Welcome message for some idea of how the group will be run.

LinkedIn professional networking site

You might consider joining the LinkedIn networking group. It seems pretty reasonable, with only a few uninvited emails from 'plaxo' as a downside. There are alumni groups for "DEC Alumni" and "Digital Equipment Corp. Alumni", if you're a "joiner". The upside is that you can update your own information, avoiding the months-long [years-long!] delay for me to get to it in dwsalum. See http://www.linkedin.com/ for more information. You can do a basic listing for free, and spend up to $100 a month (?!) for an "Executive" account. There's even a "Job Seeker" account ($30/mo) that _may_ make sense if you really need the contacts. I just do the free basic plan.

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Introduction

This is a list of the known whereabouts of former members of the Digital Equipment Corporation VAX / MIPS / Alpha / x86 Workstation Engineering groups. (DIGITAL was acquired by Compaq Computer Corporation in 1998, and Compaq was acquired by Hewlett-Packard in 2002.) Current and former Hewlett-Packard (Compaq, DIGITAL) employees are welcome to submit their names to this list (see the Notices section). The URL for this page is http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1than/dwsalum.htm

This site has been discovered by some commercial users, including recruiters. Please do not SPAM this list -- you will only make everyone mad at you. I've taken out the mailto: links and garbled the email addresses a bit so it should be harder for the spammers.

Speaking of SPAM, some alumni were interested in finding ways to email and/or post job listings (both "jobs available" and "looking for work"), as well as possibly having a general alum discussion forum. I thought the criteria should include opt-in, moderated membership, multiple moderators for backup, restricted access for both reading and writing, members can post on their own (possibly including removal of outdated postings), email digest option (lumps postings into one daily email). Yahoo Groups seem to handle a lot of this, so I set one up. Go to http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dwsalum to figure out how to join, or send email to dwsalum-subscribe@yahoogroups.com if you are wise in the ways of this techie stuff -- as with the web site, let me know who you are and why you should be allowed access to this list. [If you're already on the web site, you don't have to provide much in the way of justification.] Read the Welcome message for some idea of how the group will be run.

Alumni/Alumnae

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Where are they now?

Names get placed in this penalty box if I don't have a corresponding email address. Any information in the regular listing is suspect. If you know where these folks are or how to contact then, please have them send me an update.

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Deceased

Links

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Boilerplate Notices

Notice: This is the real URL for this web site: (http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1than/dwsalum.htm)

This site is intended to be used for purposes of keeping in touch and various forms of networking. This site is non-commercial: nothing is sold and nothing is advertised, but due diligence forces me to say that any information posted here is available to the world.

The site has been discovered by some commercial users, including recruiters. I'll try to find a sufficiently legal-looking notice to post that says that such use is prohibited. If necessary, I'll investigate making at least part of the site password protected.

I'd be happy to include pointers to your personal or employer home pages; sorry, but I can't post files. I'm not posting résumés, announcements or other ephemera, mainly because I don't update this page very often (post that stuff on the Yahoo group). Please send me email with any omissions, corrections or updates.

To be listed, send me as much of the following information as you want published, and tell me what your connection is to the VAX / MIPS / Alpha / x86 Workstation Engineering groups. The list is limited to former employees of those groups, mainly because it's too much work to include anyone else; go set up an alumni page for your own cohort and, if it's relevant, I'll post a pointer to it.

name
email address
employer
title and/or position
work address
work voice number
work home page
home address
home phone
personal home page

If you want to be removed from the list, let me know. Sorry.

Send me suggestions for any improvements, or features you'd like to see. Note that this site is decidely low maintenance, so don't get carried away (unless you want to do the work).

The Alumni/ae site will be updated whenever I get around to it. New or modified listings are marked updated for at least a month. Email addresses that have bounced are marked "(?)", and will eventually get deleted.

Legal tidbits: I decline responsibility for errors, and offer to make only a half-hearted attempt to fix them (a) after I find out about it and (b) when I feel darned good and ready. And, as you know, there are no secrets on the Internet.

Send mail to Kenny House at *mail*to* house*AT*alum*DOT*mit*DOT*edu