Digital Equipment Corporation (MA) (Images of America)

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Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 338.7610040973 EAN: 9780738535876 ISBN: 0738535877 Label: Arcadia Publishing Manufacturer: Arcadia Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 128 Publication Date: 2004-06-21 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Release Date: 2004-06-16 Studio: Arcadia Publishing
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Editorial Reviews: From its inception in 1957, Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), headquartered in Maynard, Massachusetts, carved itself a role in American business unlike any other company. Launched by Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineer Ken Olsen with a $70,000 investment from the country’s first venture capital firm, DEC rapidly became a pioneer in computer technology. In its heyday, DEC had a valuation of more than $12 billion and employed approximately one hundred twenty thousand people worldwide, making it second only to IBM. Its people and technology contributed to making computers increasingly affordable, which led directly to the advent of the personal computer, the first computer games, and computer networks. DEC was also a leader in the Internet revolution, claiming the dubious distinction of launching the first spam mailing and registering one of the first commercial domain names. Through photographs of people, events, and machines, Digital Equipment Corporation tells the story of the unassuming computer revolutionaries who reshaped the technological world. It is written for anyone who is interested in how the present era of computing ubiquity has evolved since the 1940s, when IBM chairman Thomas Watson predicted that the whole world might need no more than five computers.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Where's the beef????? Comment: Pretty much no history of either the product or the company. Just lots of relatively meaningless pictures of board room type meeting poses. I gave the book away to a library - it was the only way I could justify the cost... Customer Rating: Summary: DEC lives on in these photos Comment: I have a nagging feeling this book is best suited for those who worked at DEC. If this describes you, then you are welcome to a flood of nostalgia as you turn the pages. Many of the best selling DEC machines are shown. The PDP, the DEC-10, the Vaxes and the MicroVax. But the photos also show some of the people instrumental in getting those projects accomplished. The photo collection is not that systematic. No doubt it omits many or most of those at DEC. But at least, in some small way, DEC lives on in this book. Customer Rating: Summary: Great for those of us who where part of it Comment: I worked at DEC from from 1977 until the Compaq and HP mergers and enjoyed looking at the old photos. That said, you have to wonder why some of the pictures are included (unknown person in front of a door, doesn't say much about anything). I'm sure my fellow ex-DECies could have provided better photos to go with the text. Digital was a great place to be and this book brings back some of the memories. More Reviews