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LA50-RA Dot Matrix Printer
Digital Equipment Corporation
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…
The LA50 receives characters and commands through an asynchronous serial…
LA75 Companion Printer
Digital Circuit Board
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…
LCG - Bridging the Gap in '76
Digital Equipment Corporation
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.
The scene is the Old North Bridge in Concord.
Logic Modules - 1957
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…
LOTUS 1-2-3
For the Digital Equipment Corporation
Rainbow 100 Personal Computer
An unopened documentation box containing Spreadsheet, Graphics and Information Management instruction manuals.
MAYNARD Comic Map
Digital Equipment Corporation
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.
Maynard Plant Tour Pamphlet
Digital Equipment Corporation
Pamphlet distributed on a tour of the digital plant in the mill at Maynard.
Peter Koch, plant manager.
Peter Koch, plant manager.
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,…
"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,…
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.
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.
Memory Test Systems 1521
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…