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Two advertising thermometers for Manning Pharmacy, Maynard, Mass.

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A 1976 calendar produced by Digital's Employee Communications Group that outlines the benefits available to Digital Employees. February is shown, maternity.

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A programming reference card for Digital's VT100.

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An informational maintenance card for the Digital model PDP11/04/34.

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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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:…

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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…

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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…

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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. …

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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.

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A marketing/catalog photograph of Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-9, a minicomputer that was introduced in 1966 and sold about 400 units.

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A short booklet describing the capabilities of the PDP-14 Programmable Controller

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A handbook for Digital employees providing background on the company, its founding principles, offices, products, and laundry list of HR policies and procedures.

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This is a prototype Digital Equipment Corporation SHARK network computer/thin client.

In 1997, Digital Equipment Corporation produced the DIGITAL Network Appliance Reference Design (DNARD), and published the hardware specifications for free…

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Digital had their name on the Formula 1 Ferrari 640 for Grand Prix racing.

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A whimsical 1978 calendar from Digital's Sales Training group. The days of each month are shown in hexadecimal (base 16). The calendar references the VAX-11/780 computer, the initial model of the VAX series which was introduced in 1977.

Fun…

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A photo of the first Board of Directors of Digital Equipment Corporation.

(L-R): Henry Hoagland, Jack Barnard, Jay Forrester, William Congleton, Harlan Anderson, Ken Olsen, Dorothy Rowe, Vernon Alden, Arnaud de Vitry, and Wayne Brobeck

Ken…