Links

• Links to Member Businesses

• HP Retiree Website (not just for retirees)

• Where to Sell or Service DEC hardware

• About Digital Equipment Corporation

• Other neat links

• Useful Information for Job Seekers

• Volunteer Opportunities

• Useful Information for Retirees    

• Where to Sell or Service DEC hardware

• For links to other ex-Digital group websites, see the Digital Interest Lists page.

About Digital Equipment Corporation

• Gordon College, Wenham MA - Ken Olsen Science Center

• Paul Allen's PDPPlanet - The Microsoft co-founder's personal site dedicated to DEC and the greatest minicomputers of all time. (Thanks to Alessandro Peruzzetto of DECItaly for pointing out this gem.)

• The Computer History Museum, Mountain View CA - The original Computer Museum founded by Gwen and Gordon Bell, greatly expanded.

Remember when it resided in the MR02 Lobby?  Then a long spell on its own at 300 Congress St. in Boston.  Since its closure in 1999, several of the exhibits featured there have been adopted and enhanced by the Museum of Science in Boston.

 

The San Diego Computer Museum Online has nominated Ken Olsen to its Hall of Fame.

• Gordon Bell's CyberMuseum for Digital Equipment Corporation

• The Computer Museum is Alive and Well!    update from Gordon 2/24/15

• The Rhode Island Computer Museum has a large collection
  of DEC equipment.   http://www.ricomputermuseum.org/Home/equipment

  • The Rhode Island Computer Museum is restoring a PDP-9 with a TC59/TU20.
    Do any of your members have either hardware or software experience with a PDP-9?
    http://www.ricomputermuseum.org/Home/equipment/dec-pdp-9

  • Contact: michael.99.thompson@gmail.com

   

• Vintage Computer Federation, a 501(c)(3) educational non-profit

  Evan Koblentz, director   evan@vcfed.org  (646) 546-9999

• The Vintage Computer Festival East - http://www.vintage.org/2015/east

  • celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the PDP-8 with special exhibits

  • www.vcfed.org

  • The organization operates VCF East, VCF West, the Vintage Computer Forum, and a hands-on computer museum at our NJ headquarters (still at the InfoAge facility in Wall, New Jersey).

Other Neat Links

History of Computers/Storage

(the former DECbigband is) CompaqBigBand

Useful Information for Job-Seekers

Useful Info - Volunteer Opportunities

Useful Info - No-Charge Directory Assistance

• Phone companies are charging us $1 or more for 411 information calls when they don't have to. When you need to use the 411 / information option, simply dial 1-800-FREE-411 or 1 800 373 3411 without incurring a charge.

Useful Information for Retirees

Thanks to Vince Tarbassian for updating this reprint from the December 2003 issue of DEC'ed Out.

NOTES: In the interest of conserving space the required prefix http:// has been left off all of the names.  Digital Retiree Association makes no endorsement of any of these sites.

Please email the Webmaster to suggest additional links -- thank you