An Ending

[unkbar]

After twenty-nine years, nine and a half months, today was my last day at Eastman Kodak.

It was a very different company when I joined on.  The big news that summer was that Kodak had bought Spin Physics, a maker of magnetic recording heads, to get the technology they needed to build 8mm cameras and projectorsfor home movies with sound.  Kodak was

Comments

[drzarron]

Yeah.. its sad to leave an institution like that. You start feeling you were part of the furniture there.

I say nothing more cause I know the punch line.

[hbruton]

Still seems odd to not think of you as Kodak employee. Here's hoping the new job turns out to be as successful.

[madtechie2718]

Hmm I rather supposed that you'd just transfer over to Carestream, as a number of my contacts in Kodak Health UK have done.

Be interesting to see how Kodak/Carestream go over now, rebranding in the medical world is always tricky - do you remember the Picked debacle?

Picker International, well known healthcare equipment manufacturer rebranded as Marconi Healthcare and then sank without a trace (after Siemens and GE picked the remaining scraps of meat off the bones).

I think Kodak Health UK were in for a rough ride anyway - they did not pick up that that big a chunk of the pie when HM Gov divided the country into a few mega-regions and set contracts for PACS. What business they did get was as a subcontractor with much reduced margins.

Conventional radiology via X-Ray film is pretty much a dead business now.

Hope the new job goes well!

[blueeyedtigress]

Wow.

I knew it was coming (because you'd hinted as much) but it's still a bit of a shock -- I've always thought of you when I see the Kodak logo, and that's suddenly erroneous ...

Looking forward to your Beginnings news tomorrow! ;]

[kgkofmel]

Everything changes. Even Unkbar!!

Looking forward to tomorrow's news.