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A Bit of DEC
History - compiled from
Wikipedia and other internet sources - Sept 2016, Jack Mileski
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March 2016: Denzil Doyle, DEC Canada
(1963-1981) writes:
Here is a note I wrote years ago that I think DEC Connection readers would
find interesting. It is about the first minicomputer sold. It was a PDP-5.
The customer was a nuclear reactor laboratory in Canada.
Link to Denzil Doyle's note
here.
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First, here is
a link to a short history of Ken Olsen and Digital posted by the American National
Business Hall of Fame.
Here's a
link to some short promotional films produced by Steve Kallis for Digital
Public Relations. These are mostly 5-minute features about
scientific applications of PDP-8s and PDP-12s.
Some related history -
the latest on The Computer Museum, started in Digital/Marlborough, then
Boston, now in CA and in cyberspace, provided by Gordon Bell, Feb. 2015.
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Left: Here is a treat - sent
in by Michael Bujnowski - front page from a Digital newsletter
called On Line from 1970 featuring the introduction of the PDP-11
series.
Click
on link for large-sized pdf. Thanks Michael! |
(larger image on Products page) |
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Right: A "Blast from the Past" sent in by Zul
Abbany Front Panel of
PDP11/20 |
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DEC early board from left to
right: Harry Hoagland, Jack Barnard, Jay Forrester, Bill Congleton,
Harlan Anderson, Ken Olsen, Dorothy Rowe, Vernon Alden, Arnaud de
Vitry, and Wayne Brobeck. |
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Digital Equipment Corporation co-founder,
Harlan E. Anderson, has written his autobiography which was released in November 2009. The title is
"Learn, Earn, and Return: My Life as a
Computer Pioneer. " |
2012: Blog by Skip Walter: The Making of
Enterprise Software ALL-IN-1
http://skipwalter.net/2012/01/13/the-making-of-enterprise-software-all-in-1/
9/10: Thanks to Lorna Oinonen for sending in
this great ad from 1959, from the Maynard town website:
12/08:
Special thanks to Greg Sorensen for providing a scanned copy of a
fantastic historical document - a History of Digital Equipment
Corporation: 1957 to the Present (1978). This is a 13MB .pdf file
so download it to your computer rather than trying to open it online.
Right-click here to download.
Photo from the Maynard
Centennial Parade, 1971 - contributed by
Irving Burg via Lorrie Marzulla
"The DEC CSC CX03 Glory Days" - a fun 25 min. DVD
video photo album by Dick Thompson - 15 years at the DEC Customer Support
Center CX03, Colorado Springs, CO - retired from DEC in 1997.
Contact Dick at:
RThomp9774@aol.com
 
Download
the "Ken Olsen Memory Book" compiled by Gordon College for their Tribute.
This is a 3.2MB file in pdf
format (over 80 pp.), so we recommend that you right-click on the link and
save it to your computer's hard drive before viewing it. It is a
remarkable testament to Ken's professional contributions and personal
values, and overwhelmingly expresses the love and admiration we still feel
for him.
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