{"id":6575,"date":"2015-04-23T20:00:14","date_gmt":"2015-04-24T03:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.digilentinc.com\/?p=6575"},"modified":"2021-06-16T16:27:45","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T23:27:45","slug":"throwback-thursday-early-digilent-packaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/throwback-thursday-early-digilent-packaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Early Digilent Packaging"},"content":{"rendered":"

When Norm MacDonald\u00a0started working full-time for Digilent back in 2005 – 2006, most of our products were sold in very basic packaging\u00a0(think\u00a0anti-static bags\u00a0and plain white boxes). Totally understandable for a starting company. A few boards were given a bit of branding, though. The Basys and Nexys, of course. These were the simple boxes those came in at the time. (They may have been\u00a0done by Clint or Jim or some combination of the two.)<\/p>\n

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Norm\u00a0was given the chance to “zazz up” our packaging and naturally went for the other extreme– the\u00a0rainbow-rific end of the spectrum, as he puts it.<\/p>\n

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While they may seem lout now, it apparently made sense at the time and it\u00a0definitely got us noticed!<\/p>\n

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Content and photos provided by Norm MacDonald.<\/em><\/p>\n

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When Norm MacDonald started working full-time for Digilent back in 2005 – 2006, most of our products were sold in very basic packaging (think anti-static bags and plain white boxes). Totally understandable for a starting company. A few boards were given a bit of branding, though. The Basys and Nexys, of course. These were the simple boxes those came in at the time. (They may have been done by Clint or Jim or some combination of the two.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1553],"tags":[],"ppma_author":[4464],"class_list":["post-6575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-around-digilent"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/boxes2-early-packaging.jpg","authors":[{"term_id":4464,"user_id":7,"is_guest":0,"slug":"amber_mear","display_name":"Amber Mear","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/d0fc56ab4035f79884675bde2a948e84c1d14dd33b730b4c142dde6f1a962395?s=96&d=mm&r=g","1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":""}],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6575"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digilent.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=6575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}