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Welcome to The DEC Connection!
The DEC Connection is an association dedicated
to preserving the unique culture of Digital Equipment Corporation by
reuniting the Digital family through face-to-face events, intra-personal and
group communications, and joint activities. We want to preserve
Ken Olsen's cultural, technical and
management legacies. We promote events of local ex-DEC clubs. Membership
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Reunions & Events |
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- From Gen Narui, a former DEC-Japan
employee:
DEC-Japan alumni organization
will have an annual event on May 25th from 18:30 at Hyatt
Regency in Tokyo. There will be around 100 participants. If
you are in Tokyo on May 25th, 2018, please join us.
Fee is 9,000 yen. Email
Gen at:
- Maynard Mill get-together at the
Battle Road Brewery House was Sunday, May 20, 2018.
See the writeup and photos here.
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Other past Reunions:
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Digital_Man/Digital_World
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The first PBS showing of Digital_Man/Digital_World
was 21 Feb 2012 in Indianapolis - here is a link to the 57-minute video
on their website to watch on your computer!
http://video.wfyi.org/video/2282149336/
The
DVD of Digital_Man/Digital_World is available from PBS; $24.95
plus ship.
Here is a link to shopPBS to purchase.
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Memorials
click on link above for details |
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Patrick Bowe, 85, Littleton MA, 15 May 2018
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Pier Carlo Falotti, Geneva Switzerland, 24 April 2018
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Roger Allen Hergert, 72, Colorado Springs, 23 April 2018
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Mike Zarich, 74, Longmont CO, 20 April 2018
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Allen Clark, 77, Melbourne FL/Colorado Springs, 10 Mar 2018
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Gilles P. Tardif, 83, Sarasota FL, 20 Feb 2018
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(Irwin) Warren Beckman, 75, Acton/Otis MA, 11 Feb 2018
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Joseph M. Meany, Jr. 78, Marlborough MA, 10 Feb 2018
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Barry M. Bograd, Framingham/Newton MA, 30 Jan 2018
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Bruce D. Bolduc, 70, Leominster MA, 27 Jan 2018
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Steve (John Stephen) Hayes, 69, Colorado
Springs, 18 Jan 2018
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Norman H. Douglas, 78, Chelmsford MA, 13 Jan
2018
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Warren Sander, 59,
Collierville, TN, 13 Jan 2018
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Donald J. Alusic, 75, Amherst NH, 2 Oct 2017
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Sanford Schulman, 83, Auburn MA, 10 Nov 2017
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Arlene P. Roux, 60,
Thomasville NC/Tewksbury, MA, 13 Jun 2017
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Announcements |
VAX and PDP-11 still live!
-Thanks to
Sue Yarger for
sending in this note from the UK Register:
NASA dusts off
FORTRAN manual, revives 20-year-old data on Ganymede - Analysing Galileo's
Jovian moon results
-And thanks
to Jack MacKeen
for this gem, same source:
Das blinkenlights
are back thanks to RPi revival of the PDP-11 Retro computing fans wrap
classic DEC fascia round world's fave hobby machine
HAPPY
60th ANNIVERSARY DIGITAL!
See article in the Telegram for pics and nostalgia.
Where to Sell or Donate your old Digital hardware |
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HP Connection |
and
click on the link under “US Alumni Product Purchase Program”. Then
follow the instructions to register for the program.
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