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Today’s throwback brings \u00a0us a few pictures from the first time we at Digilent presented ourselves as a company in a trade show setting, around 2007. This conference was very small — it was located in the main floor entry of the ETRL building on the WSU campus. Clint (Cole), our former president, was giving a presentation as well.<\/p>\n

\"Display-trade-show-2007\"<\/a><\/p>\n

The tabletop display was the first piece of trade show material we ever bought, seen here with a ton of information crammed onto it. You can also see one of the first demos we showed off to people — an NES emulated on a Nexys.<\/p>\n

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And of course, there’s Joe Harris and Mark Taylor, a former intern, explaining Digilent’s mission and showing some of our products.<\/p>\n

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And just in case you wanted to know what the Digilent team in general looked like in 2007, we have that too. My, how we’ve grown!<\/p>\n

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Photos and story from Norman MacDonald.<\/p>\n

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