A photographer wandered around my workplace looking at all of the men's
hands. They were doing a closeup shot and needed just hands. More than a
little strange.

On Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 6:15 AM Norman Jaffe via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> 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>
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>
> > 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
>

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