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 <w...@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 > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com > > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > > and follow the instructions there. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com > and follow the instructions there. > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@lists.febo.com To unsubscribe, go to http://lists.febo.com/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts_lists.febo.com and follow the instructions there.