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  • Collection: Digital Equipment Corporation

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Phone directory of employees working in the Mill in 1968

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Two color photos of the three dimensional model of Ken Olsen Plaza. The design of the Plaza model was done by Vanasse/Hangen & Associates, Inc.; Lane, Frenchman and Associates, Inc.

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A series of 26 color photos celebrating the 25th Anniversary of Digital Equipment Corporation and Testimonial Banquet to Ken Olsen, Founding President. The event was held April 19, 1983. The first photo of attendees include Bill Keto, Winnie Hearon,…

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Three black and white photos of Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation. Others in the photos are unidentified. The first photo is of (l-r): Kenneth Olsen, Stan Olsen (his brother), and Harlan Anderson. These three people started…

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A Program for Appreciation Night held November 30, 1971, in the Maynard High School Auditorium. The event was sponsored by the Town of Maynard to extend its gratitude to Digital Equipment Corporation for bringing "great credit to the name of…

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Two black and white photos of the interior of the DEC building. One photo is labeled "module test". The photos are 1960 ca.

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A black and white aerial view of the Maynard Mill Buildings/Digital Equipment Corp.

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A black and white photo of DEC Building #12.

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Everyone was required to leave the plant during fire drills which were scheduled periodically. In the photo, occupants of Building #5 wait for the "all clear" signal.

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A black and white photo of "Building 1 Illuminated" was Yu Hata's prize winning entry in Digital's Photo contest and was taken by a Pentax camera, set for a 2 second exposure at 5.6f stop.

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A black and white copy of a photo of the home office and manufacturing facilities of DEC.

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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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A black and white paper copy of a memorial photo of Harry S. Mann (1917-1968), Vice President of Digital Equipment Corp., 1965-1968.

A collection of Digital Equipment Corporation documents including but not limited to the following subjects: Ken Olsen, DEC World, Manuals, Bumper Stickers, newspaper clippings, Celebrations, and a variety of documents.

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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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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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Two black and white photos of the Spark Chamber Scanning System 2319.

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Two black and white photos of Memory Core Tester 2113.

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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…

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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…