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Digital Equipment Corporation History
A partial review of the engineering culture at DEC praising and critiquing the strurcture the company has developed.
The Engineer's Glossary of Standard Terms and Conditions
Digital Equipment Corporation
A few facetious definitions to help relieve the stress.
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
A faded list of the characteristics that define real "Millrats", a DEC cultural term (of sorts) for a Digital employee who has worked in the Maynard Mill for a long time.
Digital Mill Complex Conference Room Directory
This is a 1990 DEC employee guide to the available conference rooms within the Mill Complex . The company named conference rooms after people and other cultural references to Maynard and the vicinity and Digital Equipment Corporation history.
Digital "Welcome to PKO Site" Brochure
A one-sheet folding brochure with basic information about the Digital Parker Street site (site code "PKO") which consisted of 3 buildings: 2 small buildings PKO1, PKO2, and the larger PKO3. There was also a helicopter pad and the adjacent DCU…
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…
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…
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…
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. …
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.
Blizzard of 1978
The blizzard occurred February 6-7, 1978. The photo shows two snowmobiles at the intersection of Main and Nason Streets. The photo was probably taken on February 7th and appeared in the Assabet Valley Beacon on February 9, 1978. In the background…
Stretch's Tavern
1978 photo of Stretch's Tavern at 29 Main Street. It was printed in the Assabet Valley Beacon in March of that year. The owner at that time was Frank Kane of Maynard. His bartender was George "Sudsy" Aho, also of Maynard. The place was an…
The Railroad Bridge during flood of 1927
The photo was taken from the west bank of the Assabet River looking up stream. The houses center back are on Euclid Ave. The lower bridge was used for coal trucks leaving coal company to access Main St.
Mill Street Bridge Flood - 1927
Summer Hill is seen in background. The house, center right, is still at same location.
A History of the Lovell Bus Line
After the closure of the Concord, Maynard, and Hudson Street Railway a bus line was started by John Lovell in 1923 and it continued into the 1950s.This monograph details the history of John Lovell and the Lovell Bus Lines in Maynard.
Chet Atkins for Congress Campaign Button
Chet Atkins was born in Geneva, Switzerland on April 14, 1948. He graduated from Concord-Carlisle High School in 1966, then attended Antioch College in Ohio. He served in the Massachusetts House of Representatives 1970-71, the Massachusetts Senate…
Maynard Police/Fire Station Plaque - 1955
The combined Police and Fire Station was built in 1955 at the intersection of Summer and Acton Streets, 1 Summer Street. The following were instrumental in the project: Leo F. Mullin, R. Frank Punch, Harold R. Wilcox, William Naylor, David L.…