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

[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 <wes at triconet.org> wrote:

> 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 a couple of Timenuts stories:  "The High-Speed Frequency
> Counter---A new Solution to an Old Problem", which describes the HP 524
> from
> January 1951 and  "A New Performance of the "Flying Clock" Experiment"
> from July
> 1964.
>
> Wes  N7WS
>
> On 1/23/2019 6:41 PM, Rice, Hugh (IPH Writing Systems) wrote:
> > 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 talks about HPs
> creation of the Dymec corporation, which then became a division.  Scroll
> back to page 102 for some context.
> >
> >
> https://books.google.com.sg/books?id=Zr1jDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&dq=dymec+company+history&source=bl&ots=Q_66Bj1viA&sig=ACfU3U2ITctr8yhZ_yXWCQ_v8qWClLXafw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwixtsCj-oTgAhXJh3AKHXd3DqMQ6AEwDHoECAUQAQ#v=onepage&q=dymec%20company%20history&f=false
> >
> > I plan to buy a copy of the book and read it on my trip to Hong Kong
> this weekend.   If it is interesting, I'll write a quick review for you all.
> >
> > Tom V:  Let us know if we are wandering too far off topic for time-nuts.
> >
> > Hugh Rice
> >
> >
> >
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