[time-nuts] HP History with Dymec: "Becoming Hewlett Packard. Why Strategic Leadership Matters"

2019-01-23 Thread Rice, Hugh (IPH Writing Systems)
Hello Time Nuts, Being a bit new to HP (only 35 years), I never head of Dymec before. A quick Google search yielded this link, which is an excerpt from the book "Becoming Hewlett Packard, Why Strategic Leadership Matters." You can read about 10 pages of the book from the preview, which ta

Re: [time-nuts] HP History with Dymec: "Becoming Hewlett Packard. Why Strategic Leadership Matters"

2019-01-23 Thread Tom Van Baak
> Being a bit new to HP (only 35 years), I never head of Dymec before. This web page gives the best coverage of Dymec that I've seen: http://hpmemoryproject.org/news/dymec/dymec_page_00.htm You'll recognize much of that era's test equipment. Also near the end are many photos showing the dy upsid

Re: [time-nuts] HP History with Dymec: "Becoming Hewlett Packard. Why Strategic Leadership Matters"

2019-01-23 Thread jimlux
On 1/23/19 7:02 PM, Tom Van Baak wrote: Being a bit new to HP (only 35 years), I never head of Dymec before. This web page gives the best coverage of Dymec that I've seen: http://hpmemoryproject.org/news/dymec/dymec_page_00.htm Y fascinating stuff - I'll have to ask some of the older JPLer

Re: [time-nuts] HP History with Dymec: "Becoming Hewlett Packard. Why Strategic Leadership Matters"

2019-01-23 Thread Tom Curlee
tory with Dymec: "Becoming Hewlett Packard. Why Strategic Leadership Matters" To: "time-nuts@lists.febo.com" Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2019, 5:41 PM Hello Time Nuts, Being a bit new to HP (only 35 years), I never head of Dymec before.  A quick Google search yielded this

Re: [time-nuts] HP History with Dymec: "Becoming Hewlett Packard. Why Strategic Leadership Matters"

2019-01-24 Thread Wes
A little more topic drift, but on the subject of books about HP (forgive me if this one has already been mentioned) I have a copy of "Inventions of Opportunity: Matching Technology with Market Needs".  This is mostly selections from HP Journal with an introduction by Bill Hewlett. It does have

Re: [time-nuts] HP History with Dymec: "Becoming Hewlett Packard. Why Strategic Leadership Matters"

2019-01-24 Thread Ton Bouw
Dymec abbreviated it's name to dy but with a font that looked like hp but written upside down. If I recall correctly the Dymec instrument I used in 1970 was supplied with an HP manual. Ton PA0TBR On Thu, 24 Jan 2019 at 19:03, Wes wrote: > A little more topic drift, but on the subject of books a

Re: [time-nuts] HP History with Dymec: "Becoming Hewlett Packard. Why Strategic Leadership Matters"

2019-01-24 Thread Andy
I am not sure if it's the same Dymec, but I may have heard of them. This was a few decades ago. Among other things, they made wonderful modular voltage-to-frequency converters. I was a young engineer and I thought their V-F was amazing. We used their 0-10MHz model, which seemed darn good back t

Re: [time-nuts] HP History with Dymec: "Becoming Hewlett Packard. Why Strategic Leadership Matters"

2019-01-25 Thread Andy
OK, now I'm sure the Dymec I mentioned earlier was not the same one as HP's Dymec. The Dymec I knew apparently got its name by condensing Dynamic Measurements Corp. to Dymec Inc. Also the one I knew was much more recent than HP's Dymec, which had been folded back into HP well before. Andy __