Workstations Questionnaire

This document is a "Workstations Questionnaire" from Digital Equipment Corporation, dated September 1989. Its primary purpose is to gather post-purchase feedback from new workstation owners to help Digital improve future products.

The questionnaire requests a wide range of information, including:

• Workstation Details: The specific model purchased, its hardware configuration (memory, storage, backup capacity, monitor type and size).
• Usage Environment: Other types of workstations in use at the site, planned operating systems (VMS, MS-DOS, ULTRIX), windowing systems (DECwindows, UIS), how the system will be used (networked, diskless, standalone), and other attached peripherals.
• Applications: What applications the user plans to run.
• Purchase Drivers: A rating of the importance of various factors in the purchase decision (e.g., price, performance, expandability, vendor reputation, ease of use, video quality).
• User Information: Contact details (name, phone, company, address) and primary job function.
• Qualitative Feedback: Open-ended questions asking about the user's likes, dislikes, suggested changes for the workstation, and feedback on the product documentation.

The completed questionnaire is intended to be returned to Digital Equipment Corporation via a prepaid business reply mail service.