I also dotted-lined into Tom in the 90s when the big DG NUMA Unix servers were being developed. I was the product manager for the line--along with a bunch of other systems going back to the mid-80s a few years after the "Eagle" in the book was released.

I've shared this before but a really interesting internal publication from the mid-80s was A Year in Development with lots of interviews and photographs. https://archive.org/details/year-in-dev/mode/2up

Here's a piece I wrote about 13 years ago:

https://metatalk.metafilter.com/13606/Jessamyn-in-Valley-New...

Hi felix!

Hacker News is a treasure just for this kind of encounter.

Thanks! Gonna pour over that and other docs.

This memoir about working at DG in the 70s was linked on HN yesterday:

Data General History: The Fair Bastards http://www.teamfoster.com/billteamfostercom

via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33793837 - no comments

Thanks! I'm reading the Foster one whole night and this morning, Googling along the way. Those were great times, eh?

Here is an advertising brochure for DG's first product, the Nova minicomputer, when it appeared in 1968. A weird mix of technical information and full-page close up photos of DG executives trying to look tough:

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Data_Gener...

Interesting. I got the exact feeling -- From some pages I read hardcore assembler instructions, but from others I saw someone that looks like a mafia boss.

Must be interesting time though. I love those "Byte" and "Dr.Dobb" magazine ads in general. They are all very creative and sometimes do not shy away from "exotic" stuffs such as beautiful ladies and such. I wonder what sub-industry still has that kind of culture :)