DPI Very Early Pictures
circa 1964-1965

All but one are identified for you, as very few of you were around early enough to know them.

You are already familiar with Roy Score if you read the history page. Roy is the Founder and first President of DPI. He coined the name Data Pathing and defined most of the principles on which DPI was founded. He also sold a lot of DPI stock at a barber shop and beauty shop in Los Altos to meet the payroll prior to obtaining the first venture capital from Allstate in late 1965.

This is Jim Pike, Mechanical Engineer Deluxe. Jim designed the original Badge Reader and Card Scanner to prove the feasibility of a sealed terminal with no moving parts exposed to the factory environment. I don't know what he is working on in this picture, but I just had to include it to more realistically portray him.
Roy, Jim, and Bill Bridge once worked together at the National Bureau of Standards. When Roy got the idea for DPI, he knew two people he wanted there with him.

Less than a year after Bill Bridge left his job as a Section Manager at the General Electric Computer Department in Phoenix to work on his own, he decided to accept Roy's offer to join DPI as Director of Engineering. "Bill was the main reason I joined DPI, says Bill Hill, after having worked a couple of levels under him while on the GE Datanet-30 Project in Phoenix." It was Bill along with Don Birmingham who modified Roy's initial "Receiver" concept to it being an applications programmable Communications Processor and thereby revolutionizing the Factory Data Collection marketplace.

You have seen Frank Ma (on the left) on the first Guess Who picture being the first DPIer to receive a Five Year Pin.
The young man on the right will remain a "guess who" until identified (many of you probably know him). He began working with Roy Score while they were both with Friden. Roy sold Data Collection Systems and he would install them. He ended up being one of the group at the original Founding meeting in Excelsior Springs, Missouri.
Identifiers - 1. Paul Boltauzer

Another participant of the Founders Meeting was Peggy Rutherford. She worked at TWA in Kansas City and was involved with the Friden Data Collection System there which Roy had sold. I guess that makes her the first of the many customers to come to work with DPI.

	You are already familiar with Roy Score if you read the history page. Roy is the Founder and first President of DPI. He coined the name Data Pathing and defined most of the principles on which DPI was founded. He also sold a lot of DPI stock at a barber shop and beauty shop in Los Altos to meet the payroll prior to obtaining the first venture capital from Allstate in late 1965.
	This is Jim Pike, Mechanical Engineer Deluxe. Jim designed the original Badge Reader and Card Scanner to prove the feasibility of a sealed terminal with no moving parts exposed to the factory environment. I don't know what he is working on in this picture, but I just had to include it to more realistically portray him. Roy, Jim, and Bill Bridge once worked together at the National Bureau of Standards. When Roy got the idea for DPI, he knew two people he wanted there with him.
	Less than a year after Bill Bridge left his job as a Section Manager at the General Electric Computer Department in Phoenix to work on his own, he decided to accept Roy's offer to join DPI as Director of Engineering. "Bill was the main reason I joined DPI, says Bill Hill, after having worked a couple of levels under him while on the GE Datanet-30 Project in Phoenix." It was Bill along with Don Birmingham who modified Roy's initial "Receiver" concept to it being an applications programmable Communications Processor and thereby revolutionizing the Factory Data Collection marketplace.
	You have seen Frank Ma (on the left) on the first Guess Who picture being the first DPIer to receive a Five Year Pin. The young man on the right will remain a "guess who" until identified (many of you probably know him). He began working with Roy Score while they were both with Friden. Roy sold Data Collection Systems and he would install them. He ended up being one of the group at the original Founding meeting in Excelsior Springs, Missouri. Identifiers - 1. Paul Boltauzer
	Another participant of the Founders Meeting was Peggy Rutherford. She worked at TWA in Kansas City and was involved with the Friden Data Collection System there which Roy had sold. I guess that makes her the first of the many customers to come to work with DPI.

DPI Very Early Pictures circa 1964-1965

DPI Very Early Pictures
circa 1964-1965