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Digital Equipment Corporation

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Items from Digital Equipment Corporation, which was headquartered in Maynard from 1957-1999.

Contributor

Dave Griffin, David Wisniewski, Lenny Palmer, Chris Lister

Includes a number of artifacts on permanent loan from the Ken Olsen Collection from Gordon College.

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Digital Equipment Corporation Mill Site Services Brochure
This is a 1991 DEC employee directory of services in the Mill complex including phone numbers, times of operation, and location: building number, floor, pole number (e.g., MLO3-1, Pole 46C). The brochure also included a map of the complex and the…

Digital Equipment Corporation Lore: Real Millrats

Real millrats

Real millrats don't wear shoes with soft crepe soles.
Real millrats have been up in the clock tower.
Real millrats don't wince when the pallet trucks rumble past.
Real millrats don't ask why the pond is yellow.
Real millrats know…

Digital Mill Complex Conference Room Directory

Conference room names mentioned:

Colonel Elijah Hale
Asa Smith
Haman Smith
Artemas Whitney
Nathaniel J. Wyeth
Mary Gibson
Joseph Russo
Levi Cheney
Jethro
Samuel Lerer
Jonathan P: Bent
Judge Howard Wilson
Mary Doyle
Abel Haynes
Thomas…

Photo of a Digital KDF-11B CPU Board
A photograph of the KDF-11B is a CPU processor module developed by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) for its PDP-11 family of 16-bit minicomputers. The KDF-11B board is associated with the PDP-11/23+.

Technically, the KDF-11B is a quad-height…

Digital PDP-9 Analog-to-Digital Converter (?)
This is a marketing photograph of a late 1960s / early 1970s Digital Equipment Corporation computer module. While no model number is visible, based on labeling and other photographs that accompanied it, it appears to be a PDP-9 A-D Converter Option:…

Digital PDP-9 Backplane Assembly
A photo of a Digital Equipment Corporation wire-wrapped backplane assembly for the PDP-9 computer.

This photograph demonstrates the design philosophy of DEC computer design in the late 1960s and early 1970s: a wire-wrapped (no solder) insulated…

Digital PDP-9 undergoing testing
A Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-9 being manufactured/tested within a lab in the Mill complex.

A note states that the gentleman in the right side of the photo is Frank Capone.

The notation at the bottom of the photograph implies that this…

PDP-9 Core Memory Module (?)
A photo of what is possibly a PDP-9 4K magnetic core memory module / backplane assembly using coincident-current magnetic core memory (see COINC DUAL label)

The top panel shows: DATA ADDRESS Indicators labeled 2048 and 4096
A/B memory sections. …

Internal view of Digital PDP-9
Photograph showing the inside of several PDP-9 cabinets. The Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-9, a minicomputer that was introduced in 1966 and used discrete transistor logic.

Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-9
A marketing/catalog photograph of Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-9, a minicomputer that was introduced in 1966 and sold about 400 units.

Digital Equipment Corporation Presentation - 1979
Digital Equipment Corporation presents 50,000th LSI-11 microcomputer to Bridgeport-Textron.

l to r
Jack McKeen, Product Line Manager (DEC)
Carol Seaman, Product Line Market Coordinator (DEC)
Andy Knowles, Vice President Corporate Marketing…

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) Pocket Knife
Boxed presentation pocket knife that was an employee service award (estimated for 10 or 15 years of service), probably from the 1980s. The knife has been embellished with an image of the Clock Tower along with the word "digital".

Digital PDP-14 Programmable Controller Product Summary

(from the introduction page)

PDP-14 AND PDP-14/L PROGRAMMABLE CONTROLLER

Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-14 is a programmable solid state controller which is well suited to a variety of applications. The PDP-14 combines the advantages of…

Milestones in Digital's History
A summary of milestones of Digital Equipment Corporation's evolution from 1957 to 1990

Maynard Plant Tour Pamphlet<br /> Digital Equipment Corporation
Pamphlet distributed on a tour of the digital plant in the mill at Maynard.
Peter Koch, plant manager.

&quot;Curfew Bell&quot; Presentation - 1983
Mounted photos and narrative presented to Ken Olsen in 1983 commemorating the bell donation from the American Woolen Company to the Mission Evangelical Congregational Church in 1935.

Note: Bell was removed from the Church in 2021 and now is on…

Daniel C. Osborn Commemorative Plaque
A plaque commemorating Daniel Osborne, first printer in Maynard. Plaque hung in a Digital Equipment Corporation building.

You... and digital - Employee Handbook (ca 1970)

WELCOME TO DIGITAL

This booklet will introduce Digital to you. It provides basic information on
the Company, its products, the scope of its operations, work rules, company policies, and benefits. You will find your supervisor and the Personnel…

Digital Clock
A white clock made at the Digital Stow Carpentry Shop that was hung in the Mill. The carpenter/artist who carved and signed this wood clock was Michael G. Giddens, April 4, 1985. There is a light which lights up the clock tower clock dial.

Mechanical Computing Device
A brass commorative plate reads:
"The first 'Mechanical Voting Device' in the world, originally built in 1823 by Wilhelm Schickard, a German Professor for mathematics, presented to Kenneth Olsen on November 15, 1991. Digital Kienzle,…