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DEC - gone but not forgotten

Filed under Software / computing by david brooks at 10:01 am

(As one commenter notes, this is the Compaq version of the DEC logo; the original was blue.)

Digital Equipment Corp.’s move to New Hampshire in the 1970s was the biggest single event that moved this state from its post-textile-industry funk into its edge-of-Route-128-tech-corridor present. (Nashuans would say the most important event was military electronics firm Sanders Associates, now part of BAE, moving into a closed textile mill downtown, which happened decades earlier. But DEC had a much higher profile.)

The end of the minicomputer era deflated DEC, which is now part of H-P*, but its memory lingers in the Greater Boston Area where it was born. It lingers so much that Mass High Tech is excited to report there’s even a documentary film about DEC in the works.

Plus, you can get the Digital logo on a necktie!

*I originally wrote Compaq, which would have been true three or four years ago … hey, it’s Monday morning.

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