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  • Collection: Digital Equipment Corporation

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

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A black and white photo of the PDP-1 Computer. Digital demonstrated its prototype PDP-1 computer at the 1959 Joint Computer Conference in Boston, MA. The whole showing was buzzing about this fledgling company called Digital and this little machine…

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A black and white photo of DEC's PDP-4 computer. Digital's PDP computer line was designed with the goals of interactivity, low cost, simplicity, and reliability. The computers in this 18-bit computer family are the PDP-1 of 1960, PDP-4 of 1963,…

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A poster/calendar for the Digital Central Engineering Development Programs in 1985. The calendar features a picture of the Assabet Mills from Thompson Street in 1881.

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A map of the origin and development of Digital Equipment Corporation from 1957 through 1986. The DEC Tree is an article that was published in the magazine "Computerworld" on September 24, 1986.

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The keyboard was introduced in 1982 to be used with the VT 220 terminal.

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A black and white photo of DEC Memory Tester 1516. The first systems Digital made were memory test systems to check the core stacks that were the memories used at that time. The technology used in these test systems were later used to build memories…

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Digital Equipment Corporation Library

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This is the processor for the PDP-8/e, a (relatively) low-cost minicomputer model that was introduced in 1970. (The PDP-8/e was sold with a tape drive, terminal, and cabinets that we do not have.)

The 12-bit CPU was built using DEC M-series Flip…

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Circuit board.
Two chips center-marked with 'PROTO'.
End of board marked with '50-21531-01 A1' and 'OCT-10 94V-0' and '29591'.
Extensive dust covering back from use.

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Circuit board with EPROM chip insertion extension at end.
Two chips center-marked with 'PROTO'.
End of board marked with '50-21531-01 A1' and 'OCt-10 94V-0' and '29591'.
extensive modification to circuitry has been performed in the form of added…

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Large circuit board modified to be a wall clock (cut out and modified with addition of a small quartz clock movement).
Board marked 'LPWR' and 'GS-2' and 'digital' logo, along with other various designations.
4 back plane connectors and two locking…

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Power supply board, in original box; appears unused.
Box marked '9905439 Rev B 11/80'.
Board marked: '50007271-P2 Side 2'.
Very large capacitors and other components attached.

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Large circuit board with 4 plastic insertion handles, one marked 'M7127'. 4 back plane connectors.
Edge of board marked with side designations (Side 1 and Side 2), with additional markings including: 'Serial Bus Port Module' and 'M7127', along…