History of Digital Equipment Corporation (Part of Maynard Sesquicentennial History Series) 

As the last President of the Digital Equipment Computer Users Society (DECUS) I will always treasure my memories of those years!

I started working for Digital en 1976 in Maynard Massachussets, then I got transferred to Nashua New Hampshire, then I got transferred to NY. DEC the best American Company that ever existed in USA. I remembered when I met Mr. Ken Olsen, he was a gentleman. in one of his speeches he said that the best assets the Company had was the people. God Bless his soul. He was people oriented. I really miss that Company. I left the company in 1995.

I worked for DEC for 6 years. Olson came up in 1987 and told everyone, when asked about PCs, "The PC is a dying fad" I started looking for a new job but wound up starting my own computer and supplies biz.

Such a good watch. Thanks!

DEC the very best company ever existed. I worked there for 20 years. That company was people oriented. Mr Olsen had a heart of gold (RIP,) he was humble with great precensel.

I worked for Digital in Canada for 20 years. It was a wonderful company to work for at the time.

Thank you for this. I lived in Maynard during this time as my mom worked at Digital.

I was a tech for DEC, starting in H/W installs and progressing to Ops Analyst for Field Service in the Mid-Atlantic area. DEC was the greatest work environment. It was sad how the co. collapsed. Cheers to all former DEC employees. 128007

I had a summer job at DEC in '76, working at The Annex in Maynard MA doing Module Repair. Great summer job but most of my coworkers were nosey old ladies. Had some good times at the "Ye Olde Towne House Pub" across from the Mill. Great local bands played there. I lived in Natick then, it was a long ride

Started in 80' and went through the compaq and hp acquisitions. best times and the worst times. orc in nso and nio. spent time off 101a.

1980 I remember digital. They were the first to create the pdp at usc and the creation of the first internet . I used Unix at Cerritos college and 1995. Remember Cisco routers. I installed networks for walmart which today is networked all over United States.. Downey California

I joined DEC in 1983 in sales in the Los Angeles office. I came over from HP a California company. In walking into the office either the Orange County office or the LA office you would see a sea of Green Celtics banners hanging everywhere. That was when the Lakers and Celtics were battling. DEC's ISDP Progarm that of giving employees a promotional career path resulted that many of the office employees were from Maynard or Boston. That was my culture shock. But I came to love the difference. Bob

My Dad worked for Digital. I want to say from 1980 until late 90s until they were bought by Compaq. I forgot his role, I think he was systems or software engineer. As for location, he worked at the San Diego, CA office in Kearny Mesa on Kearny Villa Road. I born in '83 so I was still a kid and have limited memory of those days. I remember going to work with him sometimes on the weekends. That office campus was pretty big at the time. I think they occupied 3 buildings on the lot. I remember him bringing home weird random hardware; servers, laptops, desktops. I think they were either dev kits or some kind of beta testing. I remember the company being very generous on his tenure and great perks. Company gifts, vacation trips, car discounts from local dealership.

A very great man indeed 20 year it was a pleasure 146486

I worked for DEC for 24 years, starting in the early 80's. I started in field service eventually working my way up to software engineering at ZK3. It was a time and a company where you could interview for any position you thought you were qualified to do and be able to move into that position. I took advantage of that, taking opportunities as they came up. We had the best products, but management failed to see the changes in the industry. Compaq and HP were arguably worse. The project I was working on was cut in the mid 2000s resulting in the entire organization being "laid off" (AKA fired). The good things about the layoffs was a very generous severance package and a great network of colleagues. I got my first and second post-DEC jobs, the latter I'm still doing off of recommendations from people I worked with at DEC.

Thanks to all for this wonderful documentary and testimonial. I looked up CPUWARS and found it. Go to the wikipedia page and in the references you will find a link to "the comic online". Wishing all the best to all of you and all the participants and past members of DEC!

Another short DEC story. I finished my DEC career working for Digital's CSS, the customer solutions division. Trivia note: The computer voice you hear in the future scenes of the movie Back To The Future II is DECvoice.

Best 10 years of my career were the ones at DEC.

The destruction of Digital is an unpunished capital crime in Amercian business history.

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Then, why are you showing a vt100😂 kidding thanks for the video. Awesome job.

7:12 Was Ken Olsen’s wife seriously named Aulikki Valve?? It’s like one of those joke names, a leaky valve 😂

About 8:00 and slightly before, Aulikki is not pronounced particularly close to how it is in this video, rather it is AU-lik-KI so the emphasis is 'hard' on AU and KI, not LIK as pronounced here. Basically the exact _opposite_ of how it is pronounced here. Speaker here pronounces it au-LIK-ki, as mentioned it should be AU-lik-KI. This is not unimportant, since for a native speaker of Finnish the speaker is sayin (au)LEAK(i) which isn't even close. What comes out would be written alekki roughly which is much much closer to the male name Aleksi than it is to Aulikki. Pronunciation pro-tip for Finnish, think of it in phonemes like Japanese, and clearly pronounce them all. It is _not_ an indoeuropean language with silent letters and similar nonsense, it is written phonetically in phonemes like you would write Japanese in Romaji script.