Memorabilia

Marketing got lapel pins.
These are from the late 70s or early 80s.
Garry Kaiser

We had T-shirts. Rick Kissel's is a Multics Man shirt. Katie's says "Multics Keeps It Up Longer". Multics Picnic, July 1979. (Click for a larger view.) THVV

I designed (executed) the Multics t-shirts. I did the Phx marketing t-shirt displayed by Sue Bender, as well as Multics Keeps It Up Longer and Steve Webber as Multicsman. I based the t-shirt drawing on Kenney's Multicsman comic. But in my version, it was a cartoon portrait of Steve Webber. My version of Multics man looked like Steve, because I knew Steve. David Rollow

Sue Bender, Liz Mullen, Kay Kaiser: Their shirts read Save Honeywell, Buy a Multics on the front, and Save Multics, Buy Honeywell on the back. (Click for a larger view.) THVV

Multics Time Sharing shirt, design by Angus Macdonald, photo by Janet Dent. (Click for a larger view.) Janet Dent

Susan and I were going through some boxes of old clothes, etc., and came across this item, which I took a picture of. It was given to us by the PMDC folks when our first son Michael was born in July of 1980. (The phone is there to show the relative size and as a shameless plug for my current employer.) Multics didn't last long enough for Mike to become a Multician but he spends a lot of time with Linux and is employed as a network analyst with Global Crossing. Photo by Paul Benjamin. (Click for a larger view.) Paul Benjamin

Pewter paperweight in the shape of a beaver,
1973. (Click for a larger view.) THVV

Honeywell Information Systems had an advertising campaign in the early 70s which consisted of photographs of sculptures of various animals, made out of electronic parts. The animals were associated with various Honeywell computers. Since the totem animal of MIT is the beaver (it's on the  class ring), they made a beaver to associate with Multics. Marketing also gave away nice heavy little pewter paperwieghts that represented the sculptures. (The eagle, representing FSO, was highly prized.) If you look very closely you can see the resistors and so on that the beaver's original was made of. They handed these out at the legendary appreciation dinner for the Multics developers in Boston in 1973 with some little card thanking the Society Of Beavers.. we wondered if that was a dig.

Multics flying disc from the 70s. (Click for a larger view.) THVV

iron-on patch from the 70s. (Click for a larger view.) Ron Riedesel

"Just found this, surprised it wasn't already on the web-site. All I can tell you about it is that it must have been made before I left at the end of 1967." (Click for a larger view.) Don Wagner

Black armband from HLSUA 10/85
Garry Kaiser

Multics mug. Traditional gift at going away parties. This one commemorated my transfer to Phoenix, so it says ">udd>m>Van Vleck mv tvv.CISL =.Phoenix "
(Click for a larger view.) THVV

Multics and STC ties, on the occasion of STC's centennial and its installation of Multics.
(Click for a larger view.) David Warley

I had the "MULTICS" tag for California from 1983-1994 and for North Carolina from 1994-1998. I finally gave it up because I went for 5 straight years without meeting anyone who knew what it was! Of course, I'm in the Land of Red Hat down here and many of these kids barely even knew Unix.
(Click for a larger view.) Wayne Clark