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Ken Olsen Day Commemorative Program
As part of Digital's 25th Anniversary, the Town of Maynard honored Ken Olsen with a dinner and the introduction of Ken Olsen Plaza.
Digital Equipment at a trade show
Representatives of Digital Equipment Corporation at what appears to be a trade show. PDP-8 and Flip Chips are being displayed.
Digital VP Win Hindle awards check
Win Hindle is handing a check to unknown man. They are standing in front of a PDP-10.
Students learn about computers
Instructor Ed Hilton teaches basic computer technology on PDP-8 computer to Maynard students.
Ken Olsen presents 1000th PDP-8
Digital President Ken Olsen presents the 1000th PDP-8 computer to Teradyne President Nick DeWolf.
Students learning about PDP-8
Instructor Ed Hilton teaching students with the PDP-8/S (ASR-33 teletype next to student on right).
Ken Olsen
Kenneth Olsen, President of Digital Equipment Corporation, gives social security numbers to be typed by Duane Mulcahy. According to Olsen's description of the early days: "We did everything ourselves. My wife cleaned toilets and my brother Stan and…
Engineers using LINC-8 computer
A group of 4 male engineers(?) pose with LINC-8 computer (left) and ASR-33 teletype (right)
Building 1 Illuminated
A prize-winning entry in Digital's Photo Contest, taken with Pentax camera (2 second exposure at f/5.6)
Digital employees
Two female employees discussing work in a Mill office. DECwriter and acoustic coupler in foreground.
Memory Core Tester 2113
Publicity photo of the Memory Test Systems 2113 Core Memory Tester (built from DEC system modules.) A memory test computer was used to test the ferrite core memory modules in early general computers such as Whirlwind.
Digital PDP-1 computer
Publicity photo of an early model of a Digital PDP-1 (Programmable Data Processor) computer. On table is a CRT display, control panel and paper tape reader.
Testing core memory
This appears to be a photo of technicians testing a core memory module with a Digital Equipment Corporation memory tester.
Memory Test Computer 1516
Publicity photo of the Memory Test Systems 1516 core memory tester (built from DEC system modules.) A memory test computer was used to test the ferrite core memory modules in early general computers such as Whirlwind.
Early Digital Laboratory Modules
Circa 1960, Digital Equipment Corporation's (DEC) first products were a range of packaged logic circuit known as Digital Laboratory Modules. Built with discrete transistors the modules performed basic logic functions (e.g., clocks, pulse generators,…
PDP-4 Computer
The PDP-4 was 18-bit machine intended to be a slower, cheaper alternative to the PDP-1; it was not considered commercially successful. All later 18-bit PDP machines (7, 9 and 15) were based on a similar, but enlarged instruction set, more powerful,…
Publicity photo of PDP-5 computer
DEC's first 12-bit computer which introduced the instruction set that would later be expanded in the PDP-8. The PDP-5 had a memory capacity of 1,024 to 32,768 12-bit words (roughly 2KB-64KB). It was the first computer line in the industry with more…