Join Brendan Smith, curator of the Computer and Communications Museum of Ireland at NUI Galway, as he looks at the city’s proud technology heritage whilst providing a fascinating insight into some of the more iconic IT equipment used and sometimes produced in Galway over the last five decades.
When: Saturday 24 February 2018, 2.30-3.30pm
Where: Galway City Museum, Spanish Parade House, Merchants Road Lower. See in Google Maps.
Monthly coffee mornings
An informal coffee morning for former Digital employees takes place in the Hunstman Inn between 11.30 am and 1.30 pm on the first Thursday of every month. All are welcome.
Memorabilia Project
HP in Galway have initiated a Memorabilia Project to create an archive of materials relating to Digital in general and Digital Galway in particular. If you have anything you would like to donate – for example, hardware, manuals, marketing collateral, or photographs – please contact Alma.Shawfoo@hp.com.
Next event
Many of the people who attended the Gathering event, and many who were unable to attend, have asked about the possibility of another event being planned. There are no firm plans at the moment but if you’d like to be kept informed, please contact us and we’ll add you to our mailing list.
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News
Miscellaneous information that might be of interest to ex-Digital employees. Suggestions welcome.
Opening of Galway plant
On September 19th 2018, RTÉ Archives published a story to mark the 45th anniversary of the opening of the Digital plant in 1973. See it here:
https://www.rte.ie/archives/2018/0918/994520-taoiseach-opens-digital-galway/
Illustrated talk on Galway’s Digital Heritage
Join Brendan Smith, curator of the Computer and Communications Museum of Ireland at NUI Galway, as he looks at the city’s proud technology heritage whilst providing a fascinating insight into some of the more iconic IT equipment used and sometimes produced in Galway over the last five decades.
When: Saturday 24 February 2018, 2.30-3.30pm
Where: Galway City Museum, Spanish Parade House, Merchants Road Lower. See in Google Maps.
Monthly coffee mornings
An informal coffee morning for former Digital employees takes place in the Hunstman Inn between 11.30 am and 1.30 pm on the first Thursday of every month. All are welcome.
Memorabilia Project
HP in Galway have initiated a Memorabilia Project to create an archive of materials relating to Digital in general and Digital Galway in particular. If you have anything you would like to donate – for example, hardware, manuals, marketing collateral, or photographs – please contact Alma.Shawfoo@hp.com.
Next event
Many of the people who attended the Gathering event, and many who were unable to attend, have asked about the possibility of another event being planned. There are no firm plans at the moment but if you’d like to be kept informed, please contact us and we’ll add you to our mailing list.
Articles
In memory of Ronnie Conlon
Liam Ferrie’s review of the Gathering event
42-year-old Galway computer comes back to life! – blog article by Brendan Smith of the Computer and Communications Museum of Ireland.
Oh, what a night! – review of the Tops Reunion event 2010
Digital & Engineering in the West — from the Institute of Engineers in Ireland website
Case study: Seventeen years after the Digital closure, new doors open in Galway — from the Financial Times, November 2, 2010
Digital Equipment Corporation Wikipedia entry
Google Books References to Digital in Galway from the book Digital Equipment Corporation (MA) Images of America by Alan R. Earls. You can also find it on amazon.co.uk.
Links
DEC Alumni Facebook group
DEC Connection
Ken Olsen Science Center at Gordon College