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  • Collection: Digital Equipment Corporation

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The LA50 was a compact, dot matrix, serial printer. It was designed for use in personal computer systems, office workstations, and small-sized business computer systems.

The LA50 receives characters and commands through an asynchronous serial…

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This was a dot matrix printer with a tractor paper feed attached, originally costing $835 It has a moving dot matrix head with 9 pins, and thermal printing features, and could print 9x9 dots per character in text mode or 72x240 dots per inch. It…

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A poster promoting the Large Computer Group's DECSYSTEM 10, DECSYSTEM 2O and DAS (Digital Advanced Systems).

The scene is the Old North Bridge in Concord.

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Digital's first products were logic models enclosed in an extruded aluminum wave guide. The circuits were negative-logic build with surface-barrier germanium transistors, which could run at 5 megahertz. There was no other product on the market like…

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An unopened documentation box containing Spreadsheet, Graphics and Information Management instruction manuals.

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A poster celebrating the 20 year relationship between Digital and the Town of Maynard (the Minicomputer Capital of the World). The poster appears to be created by the IPG (Industrial Products Group) which was based in the Mill.

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A summary of the fiscal 1979 year.

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Pamphlet distributed on a tour of the digital plant in the mill at Maynard.
Peter Koch, plant manager.

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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,…

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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.

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Two black and white photos of Memory Core Tester 2113.

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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.

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The test equipment business was considered by Digital to be a stepping stone to eventually building general-purpose computer products, since they would share the same general circuits. Both Ken Olsen and engineer Dick Best patented many of the…