ICOM Lore

Anecdotes about ICOM, Inc., a software automation company, last located in West Allis, Wisconsin (1985-1994).

The intention is to have volunteers contribute their memories. Over the course of time, one person's memory is not always the same as someone else's memory, and may not even be accurate. But it might be entertaining anyway…

The volunteers can be virtually anyone, an ICOM employee, distributor, customer, vendor, or even competitor. But, there needs to be some rules:

1) We cannot intentionally do anything that might violate trademarks or copyrights held by Rockwell Automation or others.
2) The intention is to post fond memories of ICOM, not memories that might embarrass, humiliate, or otherwise hurt someone's feelings. Of course, this goes for photographs as well.

To reconnect with former ICOM employees, we suggest using LinkedIn.com.

Tuesday, February 26, 2008

ICOM in San Diego, February 1989

ICOM in San Diego

Dave Meyer passed along these photos of ICOM's 1989 trip to San Diego. Of ICOM's marketing exploits, this is probably the most famous. Scott basically flew the whole company out to throw a party for a gathering of Allen-Bradley distributors, and what a party it was!

Dave Meyer writes, "After a lot of years in the bottom of the drawer --- I finally dug out the shots the photographer shot in San Diego. My part in the arrangements was the hotel, rooms, entertainment (a jazz group I hired from LA), the food, booze, pictures...... and the UCLA model. A great weekend 19 years ago --- wonder what's changed!! Hope everyone enjoys these pictures, and they find you well."

Great pictures; thanks, Dave!

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