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via Zoom Richard Seltzer available at Amazon.com
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Corporate Talk #2 - February 4, 2025 - 1 pm Eastern/10 am Pacific/6 pm GMT - An
Open Discussion with Digital's"Internet Evangelist" and author
Richard Seltzer on Alta Vista, the beginning of the search engine, and
Digital's Internet Business Group
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are going to try something fun and different! This DECconnection
Corporate Zoom with 19-year DEC veteran Richard Seltzer is about all
your questions on Alta Vista, the birth of search engines, and
Digital's Internet Business Group. Richard served as our "Internet
Evangelist" from 1995-1998 when he wrote a book on Alta Vista and spoke
about it to Digital customers all over the world. He is a talented
writer who wrote the DECWORLD newsletter and all of Ken's MGMT
MEMO newsletters. Since DEC, he has authored 25 different
books - One Family was just
published (a fascinating blend of genealogy, history, essay and
mystery) and it contains a chapter about Ken Olsen which Richard is
happy to share with you here (link to Medium).
We welcome participation from Internet search fans of all persuasions!
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Provide your name, and email address for the Zoom invite (which will be
emailed about a week ahead of the event). We ask that you be a
paid-up DEC Connection member to participate in this very interactive
Zoom session (which will be recorded, but we all know it's way
better to be in the Room Where it Happened). If your membership has expired or you haven't
ever joined up, please do so now at this
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| UPCOMING and RECENT REUNIONS
 | - June 22, 2025: SAVE THE DATE for the WooSox Baseball Outing
- June 23, 2024: WooSox Baseball Game & BBQ - 1 PM in the JetBlueHangar
- April 28, 2024 - Management Sciences Reunion in Stow, MA.
- Sept 15, 2023: South Central Area in Dallas TX
- August 25, 2023: get-together at
Kimball Farm
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June 11, 2023:
WooSox Baseball
Game &
BBQ
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June 2, 2023:
Calgary AB monthly
luncheon
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Dec 9, 2022:
Acton MA Information
Technology Reunion
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Oct 17, 2022:
Last Colorado Springs CO
Reunion
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Oct 1, 2022:
Pittsburgh PA
Reunion
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Recent Memorials
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- Pete Lillie, 82, Penfield NY, January 3, 2025
- Jean-Claude Peterschmitt, 92, Geneva Switzerland, December 8, 2024
- Emery Springer, Jr., 81, Cambridge MA, November 12, 2024
- Bruce Garland, U.K., October 27, 2024
- Allan Erny, 87, Encinitas, CA, October 13, 2024
- Paul E. Blair, 83, Batesburg SC, October 3, 2024
- Kenneth B. Fine, San Antonio TX, September 28, 2024
- Kannancote (Sri) Srikanth, 71, Lexington MA, September 24, 2024
- Edward T. Barron, 84, Harvard MA, September 21, 2024
- Bill Rebinskas, 81, Glendale AZ, September 15, 2024
- Kathy Cara, 69, Colorado Springs, September 5, 2024
- Bob Deguise, 79, Amherst, NH, August 5, 2024
- Marty Ford, 80, Flagler Beach FL, April 2, 2024
- George E. Hitz, Jr., 81, Sudbury MA, May 11, 2023
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Need Retirement/Pension
info?
- Fidelity Investments still handles all DEC
pension plans for HP that have not been withdrawn or started
income.
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HP Retirement Services Center at Fidelity
1-800-457-4015
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Effective April 1, 2022, Empower* acquired Prudential's retirement business. (Prudential Pension Dept. phone was 1-877-778-2100)
If you have begun to taking income from your Digital pension, the
company now managing your account for distribution is Empower which
bought Prudential's retirement business. However, although Empower
manages your account, the actual distribution is still being handled by Prudential's Tax service.
If you need to change the bank account number for your distribution, you should call 1-800-392-4643 at Prudential Tax Service. See below.
Prudential Tax Service, LLC
30
Scranton Office Park
Scranton, PA 18507-1796
Phone #:
1-800-392-4643
*Background.
Empower Annuity Insurance Company of America is a retirement plan
recordkeeping financial holding company based in Greenwood Village,
Colorado, United States. It is the second-largest retirement plan
provider in the United States.
The Empower brand represents products and services for both
Empower Annuity Insurance Company of America formally known
as Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company and Empower Life
& Annuity Insurance Company of New York, formally known as
Great-West Life & Annuity Insurance Company of New York.
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Need Stock Plan info?
First try:
Morgan
Stanley,
Employee Stock Plan Service Center
at (toll-free) 1-866-722-7310.
You input your social
security number and then a person will answer. Employee StockPlan Connect tech support
for N/S America for website is available at toll-free:
+1 866-722-7310. Europe:
+1 801-617-7700.
Know someone who is leaving HP? Please pass the word to anyone leaving HP to use the HP Alumni
Association's "ASAP Checklist" immediately. It has advice and mutual
help -- developed by HPAA members -- on the many things you have to do
before you lose access to HP's internal systems. Thanks to Curt Gowan
for this info. Go to http://www.hpalumni.org/asap (HPAA membership not required.)
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