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- ilkeryoldas, on 10/11/2007, -3/+73Too bad they couldn't foresee spam
- scanman20, on 10/11/2007, -1/+49I for one am calling Mr. Laurie Reeves at 1-800-225-3222 for more information!
- affanjam, on 10/11/2007, -3/+39there
http://image.bayimg.com/ha/cp/aa/ab/n.jpg - vawksel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+28Looks funny seeing an ashtray on an office desk.
- omnirusa, on 10/11/2007, -1/+27Buried as inaccurate.
The email dosent just fly away, you need to put it into a series of tubes first. - goeatsmsht, on 10/11/2007, -1/+26They (Honeywell) really must not have thought email would take off like it did. If you wanted more information about this "electronic mail" you had to call or write (write?) one guy!! Mr. Laurie Reeves.
- otaking, on 10/11/2007, -1/+22This is why Honeywell did nothing more than make the thermostats in my house.
- msaleem, on 10/11/2007, -9/+30Direct link to full-sized ad:
http://bp2.blogger.com/_Fa-NqGm0-Lk/RoQ6VZf_OaI/AAAAAAAAB5g/QTr4sMFOYeE/s1600-h/honeywell_email_ad_1977.jpg - Diorhomme, on 10/11/2007, -3/+23In 2037 they'll be laughing so hard at what we call today a PC.
- sail191912, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20Looks like mail powered by pixies
- jedioniram, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19right from their Big Ass Tables...
- mattcoady, on 10/11/2007, -0/+19The tubes were a lot fancier back then.
- Zaetha, on 10/11/2007, -0/+15Hehe, now his facial expression makes sense.
- mattcoady, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14...."You have reached the T. Rowe Price Personal Services."
Guess Mr. Reeves isn't answering anymore. :( - jedioniram, on 10/11/2007, -0/+14it's a shame he doesn't have an e-mail address...
- abddoc, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Mirror for those who can't access it if its blocked or for other reasons:
http://www.abdultaiyeb.com/blogimages/honeywell_email_ad_1977.jpg - neonenergy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14Its good to see that offices haven't changed in 30 years
... - Mewchu11, on 10/11/2007, -0/+13"failed to catch the image" is the rest of that sentence
- barbobot, on 10/11/2007, -2/+14He looks like management. He should be afraid of email.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+12It would be trippy if that ad had a URL at the bottom.
- AgenteSegreto, on 10/11/2007, -1/+9someone should tell kevin rose about this so he doesn't start another web 2.0
- johnnyrocket, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7That looks expensive, clunky and unreliable.
I would have stuck with paper in 1977. - lament, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8the ad is actually from November 1981.
Source:
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9023960&intsrc=hm_list - Niten, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7And the air and oil filters in your car (Fram), and the control systems in most US aircraft, and some of the automation in the factories used to create probably about half the things you buy at the store... Honeywell is quite an empire of industry, even if most of its properties don't directly use the "Honeywell" moniker.
- omnirusa, on 10/11/2007, -3/+10damn double post
Hey kevin, we going to get a delete button anytime soon?... - wildfire, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8I don't know, it was a spam email from my inbox.
- rabidsnail, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6If you actually do call that number you get a recording saying "Call the talk line at 1-800-352-TALK for exciting people nationwide. That's 1-800-352-T-A-L-K."
- sultrak, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5Well they're trying to sell you that "Electronic Mail" so you would probably have to use snail mail or plain old telephone.
- AZTriGuy, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6I actually work at a large Honeywell campus here in AZ, I'm going to print that out and post it up for the network admins to see, they should get a kick out of it.
- ElvisLives, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4They were writing the software for the first space shuttle at about this time.
- mattsidesinger, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4What is Mr. Laurie Reeves's electronic mail address?
- sultrak, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4I don't think it's a necessarily good marketing to portray the users of your newfangled technology as scared *****-less. I mean look at that guy's face, it doesn't say "I love my new electronic mail; Thanks Honeywell!".
- TRENT310, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Well, people have to get started someway OTHER than the product they're selling. It's like if you were an ISP (providing internet service itself, not other kinds of internet services ex. hosting) and people had to go to a website or send an email to subscribe to the service -- that wouldn't work.
- philmiller, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4I like the "there is no mountain of paperwork" I still have not seen that part. And in addition I have an inbox that refuses to let me find the bottom.
- teonancatl, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Anyone who has ever done an IT support job, knows that it wasn't just in 1977 that people had no idea how to use email.
- u2wedge, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Honeywell has also introduced a family of powerful communications-oriented office systems geared to departments that have "sophisticated electronic support needs but lack extensive technical expertise," in the words of Eugene Manno, associate group vice president of the company's Small Computer and Office Systems Business. Based on Honeywell's small-computer technology, the menu-driven Office Management Systems (OMS) 40 and 90 are available in two and three models, respectively. They offer departments extensive office processing capabilities, sophisticated electronic mail and communications facilities, and user-friendly data entry and program development tools. The OMS 40 system is based on the company's 16-bit minicomputer technology; the OMS 90 is based on Honeywell's 32-bit superminicomputers. Depending on the model selected, the systems concurrently support from four to 34 users.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Honeywell FTW! :)
- HunterXI, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2HTTP didn't exist in those days.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2This was on digg yesterday, no need to repost it.
- jedinate, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2The sad thing is, that I work in a multi-million dollar law firm and we still have lawyers (in this day and age) that prefer receiving faxes to receiving emails. The excuse heard most often for this preference is they are concerned they will lose an email. I don't understand ...you can print an email a hundred times and have backup copies, but if you lose that ONE fax it is gone, with no backup in sight. Old habits die hard I guess.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Buried....because this is not an i-Phone story
- u2wedge, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3that number rings into to T Rowe Price now.
- jonvdveen, on 10/11/2007, -3/+5"I seen?" Sir or madam, the correct way of wording that is "I saw."
I work with hillbillies all day. I hear that grammar error far too often. I'm hoping for an online grammar and spelling revolution! - theppb, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2"Administrative personnel are more effective." Ha!
Where's my dang flying car?!? And my jetpack!?! I seem to remember those being promised as well! - rnelsonee, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2I just bought a thermostat from them... browsing their webpage, I realized they make tons of stuff:
Aerospace products/services: http://honeywell.t2h.yet2.com/t2h/page/searchhome?BU=aerospace
Materials: http://honeywell.t2h.yet2.com/t2h/page/searchhome?BU=specialty
Automation and control: http://honeywell.t2h.yet2.com/t2h/page/searchhome?BU=automation
Transportation: http://honeywell.t2h.yet2.com/t2h/page/searchhome?BU=transportation - amrush4th, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3That is actually a fairly bad ass pic for back in the day. I can 100% see the angle they are comming from for that time frame. It's funny now to look back, but at the time it might have been some decent marketing.
- asskicker32, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1is it just me or does it seem so foreign to anyone else the lack of a computer on that desk?
- diabolicglacier, on 10/11/2007, -3/+4So unblock it? Or open your blockable items and middle click to view in a new window.
- bluesdealer, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1You mean in the sense that the computer will no longer be personal, seeing that companies can snoop on your machine, "license" content rather than grant ownership, etc? By 2037, it wouldn't surprise me if all computers would be required to be online at all times in order to function. Just look at the iPhone: without phone service, it's a complete brick.
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