[RetroBytes] takes us on a whirlwind tour of the history of the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), its founder Ken Olsen, and during intermission builds up a working replica of the PDP-11 from a ...

(Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA) The first minicomputer company. Commonly known as DEC or Digital, it was founded in 1957 by Kenneth Olsen, who headed the company until he retired in 1992.

[RetroBytes] takes us on a whirlwind tour of the history of the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), its founder Ken Olsen, and during intermission builds up a working replica of the PDP-11 from a ...

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Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) was founded by Ken Olsen in 1957. In those days the word computer conjured up visions of mammoth machines in huge rooms with one glass wall for visitor viewing.

In 1964, the new Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) office above Bilbey's furniture store at 11 Castle Street in Reading had two employees. Two decades later, the firm employed more than 2,000 ...