Sometimes they came up with good work, in this case, but I don’t know who they were selling to with this. In a lot of cases people like myself would pick this up and keep it, but not because it would ever accomplish it mission, but only because it had something with the product name on it.

It conveyed almost nothing in my opinion other than the name. And since noone was buying Multics, I’m not sure why they would have prepared the document in this fashion. I guess when sales were of such magnitude both to Honeywell and to the potential customers that the real information didn’t warrant being in included in the brochure says a lot.

Anyway I was on the engineering side of things, so twice removed from such those who would have done the design. Because of the nature of the business, I suspect that even the designers were hired by the Honeywell ad agency, so the identities of the designers would have been 3 or 4 times removed.

I worked at another company, Microdata who made a system called Reality, and they hired a couple of ad agencies. Again there were several similar levels of separation to the engineers. I never saw the identities of the people who did the brochures talked about except in the ad agency trades, never back in our circles. And the info was not put into the brochures, or rarely was.

I would think that the place to find both the brochures and the designers would be in ad agency trades going back to these eras, and hopefully find some give awards or discussed at the time.

In the case of Microdata the agency was in Irvine, Ca, and was Basso and Associates. With the organization of Honeywell’s structure it is likely that the agency may have been one which was retained by the corporate side and not by the computer division.