I had the same experience while working for a (very) small company called Northwest Digital Research. I was asked to point to a big HP plotter that was running one of our programs... and the photograph wound up in our product brochure. Of course, I had nothing to do with that program...
From: "Mark Linimon via cctalk" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Cc: "Mark Linimon" <lini...@portsmon.org> Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2024 5:43:13 PM Subject: [cctalk] Re: DEC Processor Books > were just DEC employees that caught somebody's eye when they were > planning the shots. "Planning" may assume facts not in evidence :-) Some photographers wandered around my employer of the time, Recognition Equipment. (Like my Canadian girlfriend, you haven't heard of it.) I was near enough to a piece of machinery to be told "point to that console like you are doing something to it". So somewhere in some ancient Annual Report you can find a picture of a clean- shaven me. My 15 seconds of fame. Well maybe not all 15. So the "plan" was, we're on deadline, get some shots. mcl