history, technology

DEC archiving project at the Computer History Museum

The Computer History Museum (Mountain View CA) recently completed a large archiving project that consisted mostly of documents and photos donated to the museum by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), which was headquartered in Boston and existed as a company from about 1950 through about 1998. DEC was one of the computer giants of its day, second only to IBM.

Computer History Museum archives
Computer History Museum archives

Dick and Anna participated in the project for its entire duration, which was about two years. The project contributed 20,000 new items to the museum’s database.

Table set up to do archiving in the Computer History Museum collection
Table set up to do archiving in the Computer History Museum collection
One of the photographs from the DEC collection: participants in a sales training class in the 1980s
One of the photographs from the DEC collection: participants in a sales training class in the 1980s