Guide to the Digital Equipment Corporation records
Finding aid prepared by Bo Doub, Kim Hayden, and Sara Chabino Lott
Processing of this collection was made possible through generous funding
from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, administered through the Council on
Library and Information Resources' Cataloging Hidden Special Collections and
Archives grant.
Computer History Museum
1401 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View, CA, 94043
(650) 810-1010
research@computerhistory.org
April 2017
Title: Digital Equipment Corporation records
Identifier/Call Number: X2675.2004
Contributing Institution: Computer History Museum
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 1,239 Linear feet,611 record cartons, 357 manuscript
boxes, 56 newspaper boxes, 169 periodical boxes, and 150 other box
types
Date (bulk): Bulk, 1957-1998
Date (inclusive): 1947-2002
Abstract: The Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) records
comprise DEC's corporate archives, with material dating from 1947 to 2002. The bulk
of the collection was collected and created during the company's years of operation
from 1957 to 1998. DEC, founded by engineers Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson, was one
of the largest and most successful computer companies in the industry's history.
Widely recognized for its PDP and VAX minicomputer product lines, by 1988 DEC was
second only to IBM as the world's largest computer company. This collection holds
the papers of DEC's executives, engineers, and personnel -- including the personal
collections of founders Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson. Also included are DEC's
administrative records and material relating to product development and engineering,
with committee meeting minutes, correspondence, internal newsletters, product
proposals, and engineering drawings. Most of DEC's publications, such as manuals,
promotional and sales material, and technical reports, are represented in this
collection as well. Lastly, DEC's large corporate photo library and archive remains
intact as a part of this collection, holding tens of thousands of original product
photographs, portraits of DEC personnel, images showing client applications of DEC
products, brochures, and historical files with visual documentation of the company's
beginnings and milestones. In 1998, DEC was acquired by Compaq, ending its run as a
company, though many of its groundbreaking technologies went on to sell under
different branding and influence subsequent directions of computing and its
industries.
Languages: The collection is primarily in English, with
small amounts of material in Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese,
Norwegian, Spanish, Swedish, and Ukrainian.
creator: Digital Equipment
Corporation.
Access Restrictions
The collection is open for research.
Publication Rights
The Computer History Museum (CHM) can only claim physical ownership of the
collection. Users are responsible for satisfying any claims of the copyright holder.
Requests for copying and permission to publish, quote, or reproduce any portion of
the Computer History Museum's collection must be obtained jointly from both the
copyright holder (if applicable) and the Computer History Museum as owner of the
material.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of Item], [Date], Digital Equipment Corporation records, Lot [#], Box
[#], Folder [#], Catalog [#], Computer History Museum.
Note: For this collection the lot number citation will either be X2675.2004,
X3149.2005, or X7042.2014.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The majority of this collection was a gift of the Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) in
2004 (X2675.2004). Smaller parts of the collection came from DEC employees Timothe
Litt in 2005 (X3149.2005) and Richard Best in 2011 (X7042.2014).
Biographical/Historical Note
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) was one of the largest and most profitable
computer companies in the world, initially known for its modules, then for its PDP
and VAX families of computers, and finally for the Alpha microprocessor.
DEC was founded in Maynard, Massachusetts, by engineers Ken Olsen and Harlan
Anderson, who had previously worked together at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory. It
operated from 1957 to 1998. Olsen and Anderson started the company with financial
backing from Georges Doriot, one of the United States' first venture capitalists,
and DEC was the first successful venture-backed computer company. Olsen served as
DEC's president until 1992 and ran the company with a complicated decentralized
management style that pitted product groups against each other for corporate
resources. Anderson served as DEC's executive vice president until he was forced out
in 1966 after a falling out with Olsen over the direction of the company.
At the time of DEC's founding, computers were large, complicated to use, and
expensive. Olsen and Anderson wanted to produce alternatives to those large
mainframes: computers that were powerful and had real-time interactivity, but were
smaller, easier to use, and much more affordable. Mindful that investors were not
backing computer companies at the time, their business plan was divided into two
phases that de-emphasized computer production. Phase one focused on the manufacture
and sale of electronic modules to be used in test and prototyping environments;
phase two focused on using those modules in the design of a fully interactive
computer system. Ultimately, DEC's focus would be on minicomputers for laboratory,
business, and research use customized for clients and including long-term service
and technical support contracts with DEC. For its first two years, DEC developed its
successful module business. In 1959, DEC's first minicomputer, the Programmed Data
Processor, or PDP-1, was designed and produced, with the first unit sold in 1960. It
was a groundbreaking computer because of its low cost and its fostering of direct
user interaction. DEC released dozens of other PDP-family minicomputers over the
next decade, becoming the market leader in minicomputers by a large margin.
In 1977, DEC introduced a new line of computers -- developed as an extension to the
PDP-11 -- called VAX, or Virtual Address Extension. The incredibly successful and
influential VAX family of computers implemented a 32-bit complex instruction set
computing (CISC) architecture and could run DEC's proprietary operating system
VAX/VMS (later OpenVMS) and UNIX. The VAX family included high performance models,
mainframes, workstations, and MicroVAX minicomputers.
In the early 1980s, DEC began development of a 64-bit reduced instruction set
computing (RISC) architecture to replace VAX. What started as several small RISC
projects at DEC formed into one, PRISM, which was canceled just before completion.
Alpha development started soon after and was based on PRISM concepts. The Alpha
architecture, introduced in 1992, was implemented as a line of microprocessors.
DEC produced other technologies besides computers. It sold a wide variety of
peripherals including magnetic tape and disk memory subsystems, dot matrix printers,
and graphics displays. DEC was also focused on networking and produced several
systems, including Ethernet, DECnet, and VAXclusters. DEC also created the early
search engine AltaVista in 1995. Additionally, DEC produced software that was mostly
proprietary to DEC machines.
As microcomputers emerged in the 1980s, Olsen was resistant to DEC developing them,
believing that most people would not want computers in their homes and that personal
computers (PCs) were mostly used for non-serious purposes, like games. However, in
response to IBM's PC (1981), DEC released several personal computer systems: the
Professional series, DECmate II, Rainbow 100, and VAXmate. DEC's personal computer
efforts did not take off like the IBM PC, however, because of DEC's high prices,
poor marketing, and insistence on making its machines and software proprietary and
thus incompatible with other companies' products and peripherals. DEC's PDP-11 and
VAX systems continued to sell well, however, but competitors were actively working
to create cheaper computers.
In 1988, DEC was second only to IBM as the world's largest computer company. By 1990,
however, the United States was in a recession and DEC's business began to falter.
This loss in revenue was attributable to several factors: There was disagreement
within DEC as to the direction the company should take as workstations, personal
computers, and open computing became more popular. DEC chose to focus on developing
a large mainframe, the VAX 9000, and continued to produce proprietary software and
hardware, missing the opportunity to take advantage of the personal computer and
workstation revolution. Many at DEC felt the VAX 9000 could not recoup its design
and manufacturing costs; this turned out to be true. As DEC concentrated on the VAX
9000, competitors produced workstations that were far less expensive and more
powerful.
As DEC's business waned, there were several attempts within different areas of the
company to boost DEC's viability with new products and technologies. Following DEC's
traditional management model, these different factions were competing against each
other and unfortunately no successful products came from those efforts. In the early
1990s, after steadily falling sales, DEC implemented the first layoffs in the
company's history.
In 1992, the DEC board forced Olsen to resign, appointing Bob Palmer as CEO and
president. Palmer attempted to streamline DEC by reorganizing its structure into a
business unit system, but the company's profits continued to slide, particularly
with its biggest moneymaker, sales and service of VAX systems. Palmer continued
laying off employees and began selling off parts of DEC's business units. Finally,
in 1998, what was left of DEC was sold to Compaq in the largest merger in the
computer industry at that time. Compaq struggled with the merger, and eventually
sold the Alpha microprocessor business to Intel, and then was itself acquired by
Hewlett-Packard in 2002.
Although it ultimately failed as a company, DEC's legacy as a pioneer in computer
technology lives on. HP continues to sell products derived from DEC technology, such
as OpenVMS, under its own branding.
Scope and Content of the Collection
The Digital Equipment Corporation records are made up of material created and
collected at the company during its active years from 1957 to 1998. The collection
also contains material created prior to DEC's founding, dating as early as 1947, and
material from the organizations involved in DEC's final mergers and acquisitions
spanning as late as 2002.
The first seven series of the collection consist of smaller, personal collections of
DEC's founders, executives, engineers, and other staff. These collections of
individuals' papers were donated intact to the Computer History Museum within the
larger original donation. Most of these individuals' collections were grouped into
series based on different types of careers at DEC. “Series 1, Executives' papers”
contain the papers of DEC's founders, presidents, executive vice presidents, and/or
executives in charge of an entire branch of DEC's operations. Series 1 holds the
papers of DEC's two founders, Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson, which include some of
the earliest records of the collection from influencing organizations such as MIT's
Lincoln Laboratory.
“Series 2, Engineers' papers” group together engineers and technical specialists. Two
of the largest subseries under Series 2 are the papers of Mike Uhler and Timothe
Litt, who were both senior consulting engineers at DEC. Litt's collection of papers
is especially large, partly due to his role in facilitating the transfer of portions
of the Digital Equipment Corporation records (Lot X2675.2004) and a smaller donation
of material (Lot X3149.2005) focusing on the KL10 model of DEC's PDP-10 mainframe
computer family. The last category of personal collections is grouped under “Series
3, Product managers' papers.” Series 3 contains the papers of DEC's “group managers”
and “product line managers” who steered product development and employee management
for specific product lines. Some of the individuals with personal collections were
not grouped into the initial three series, due to the natures of their careers at
DEC not fitting into these series' categories. These individuals have their own
series.
Following the papers of individual staff are DEC's administrative records, containing
internal newsletters, the minutes and correspondence of internal committees,
manufacturing plant records, and records pertaining to personnel and corporate
policies. Since the personal collections of the preceding series were kept intact,
much of the contents of those series relate to the material in “Series 9,
Administrative records.” For example, there are records from DEC's Operations
Committee and Executive Committee held in both the administrative records series and
the Ken Olsen papers in Series 1.
Another large body of internal documentation is contained in “Series 10, Product
lifecycle records,” which includes product proposals, project updates, pricing and
manufacturing plans, performance summaries, specifications, field maintenance
documentation, and engineering drawings for various product lines at DEC.
Other parts of the collection were donated and processed as units of a specific
department or group. These include “Series 11, Public Relations department records,”
“Series 12, Corporate Contributions department records,” and “Series 13, DECUS
records.” This collection also contains large amounts of DEC publications, which are
organized into series based on their publication types. These series include
promotional and sales material, technical newsletters and journals, manuals, and
technical reports. DEC had previously organized some of these publications into
lending libraries for employees and other users -- notably with its large
collections of manuals and technical reports.
One other major part of this collection comprises the still images and documentation
of the Digital Equipment Corporation Photo Library and Archive. The photo library
holds tens of thousands of original slides, transparencies, prints, negatives, and
proof sheets spanning the company's active years from 1957 to 1998. These images
depict client applications of DEC products, brochures and promotional material,
portraits of DEC pioneers, and historical files of images documenting the company's
early history and achievement milestones, along with histories of Maynard,
Massachusetts and the “Maynard Mill” (DEC's headquarters). Lastly, this collection
contains the audiovisual holdings--primarily videotapes--of DEC's regional libraries
from various facilities, including video recordings of talks and meetings from the
DEC Systems Research Center (SRC) in Palo Alto, California.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged into 22 series:
Series 1, Executives' papers, 1947-1995, bulk 1960-1994
Series 2, Engineers' papers, 1951-2002, bulk 1970-1998
Series 3, Product managers' papers, 1966-1997
Series 4, Sam Fuller corporate research records, 1976-1997
Series 5, Judy Hall TOPS-20 and Jupiter records, 1974-1989
Series 6, Edward McDonough Far East Manufacturing Group records, 1976-1985
Series 7, Ralph Dormitzer America's Cup records, 1982-1992
Series 8, Oral history collection, 1978-1993, bulk 1987-1991
Series 9, Administrative records, 1958-1998, bulk 1970-1992
Series 10, Product lifecycle records, 1952-1990
Series 11, Public Relations department records, 1957-1995, bulk 1973-1993
Series 12, Corporate Contributions department records, 1981-1994
Series 13, DECUS records, 1962-1993
Series 14, Promotional and sales material, 1960-2000
Series 15, Technical newsletters and journals, 1963-1998, bulk 1980-1998
Series 16, Manuals, 1960-1999, bulk 1962-1991
Series 17, Technical reports, 1971-1996, bulk 1980-1993
Series 18, Exhibit records, circa 1950-1988, bulk 1988
Series 19, Non-DEC publications, 1963-1998
Series 20, Photo library documentation, 1957-2002
Series 21, Still images, 1956-1998
Series 22, Moving images, 1979-2002
Separated Material
Related Collections at CHM
Bob Supnik papers, Lot X3339.2006.
Charles A. Jortberg collection, Lot X2381.2002.
Collection of Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1 Computer Materials, Lot
X3602.2006.
Company Collection of Computing Manuals and Marketing Materials, Lot X3067.2005.
Harlan Anderson PDP Documents, Lot X3575.2006.
Related Collections at Other Repositories
Digital Equipment Computer Users Society Proceedings and Publications (CBI 150),
Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
Ken Olsen Personal Archives, Ken Olsen Science Center, Gordon College.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Anderson, Harlan E.
Digital Equipment Corporation.
Olsen, Kenneth H.
DEC microcomputers
Maynard (Mass.)
PDP computers
RISC microcomputers
VAX computers
Executives' papers, Series 1,
Bulk, 1960-1994
1947-1995
Series Scope and Content
This series consists of the papers of DEC's founders and executives. Since
DEC classified many of its employees working at various levels of its
hierarchy as “vice presidents,” the decisions to group certain individuals
under this series were based largely on multiple organizational charts from
different years found within the collection. Rather than basing these
decisions on job titles alone, DEC staff members were grouped under this
series if they were a founder, president, executive vice president, and/or
in charge of a whole branch of DEC's operations (e.g., engineering or
sales). Many of the records in this series consist of correspondence and
memoranda among DEC's high-level steering and managing committees, including
the Works Committee, Operations Committee, Executive Committee, Business
Unit Committee, and Small Computer Guidance Committee. Also of interest in
this series are records relating to the development of the early computers
of the PDP product family, which are documented in the Olsen, Anderson, and
Bell papers. Other administrative aspects of DEC's operations are also
covered, such as correspondence relating to early sources of funding for DEC
in the Hindle and Olsen papers. Material in the Gullotti and Olsen papers
also documents company-wide reorganizations and their outcomes and
consequences.
Arrangement
This series is arranged into five subseries:
Subseries 1.1, Ken Olsen papers, 1947-1992, bulk 1957-1978
Subseries 1.2, Harlan Anderson papers, 1959-1966
Subseries 1.3, Win Hindle papers, 1958-1994
Subseries 1.4, Gordon Bell papers, 1966-1983, bulk 1974-1983
Subseries 1.5, Russ Gullotti papers, 1979-1995, bulk 1991-1994
Ken Olsen papers, Subseries 1.1,
Bulk, 1957-1978
1947-1992
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries contains material collected and created by Kenneth (Ken)
H. Olsen, co-founder and President of DEC until 1992.Olsen was born in
Bridgeport, Connecticut on February 20, 1926. After serving in the U.S.
Navy at the end of World War II, Olsen attended the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT), where he received bachelor's (1950) and
master's (1952) degrees in electrical engineering. Olsen founded DEC
with his MIT colleague Harlan Anderson in 1957. Under Olsen's direction,
DEC grew from three employees in a corner of a former wool mill to a
leading manufacturer of computer systems and associated peripheral
equipment and a leader in systems integration with its networks,
communications, and software products. This subseries contains the
documentation of this success, including Olsen's correspondence,
memoranda, personal research, and product line administration at DEC.
One key area of Olsen's leadership at DEC is documented in the meetings
of the Works Committee, which later became the Operations Committee.
Meeting minutes from these committees and memoranda sent between
committee members are included in this subseries. Outside of DEC, Olsen
served on the President's Science and Advisory Committee, a group of
some of the leading scientists and business leaders of the nation
assembled to help President Nixon make decisions on technological
problems. Olsen also participated on the National Academy of Science's
Computer Science and Engineering Board, a similar group made up of
industry leaders who advised government entities on the roles of the
computer in the U.S. economy and culture. Documents from both of these
committees are included in this subseries. In 1986, Olsen became the
first recipient of the IEEE Engineering Leadership Recognition Award and
was named "America's most successful entrepreneur" by Fortune magazine.
Olsen was forced to retire from DEC in 1992 and later became chairman of
Advanced Modular Solutions. He died on February 6, 2011, aged 84. This
subseries contains records from Olsen's time as a student at MIT in 1947
through his retirement from DEC in 1992.
Arrangement
This subseries is arranged into eight sub-subseries:
Sub-subseries 1.1.1, Correspondence, 1958-1992, bulk 1958-1970
Sub-subseries 1.1.2, Memoranda, 1959-1984, bulk 1960-1970
Sub-subseries 1.1.3, MIT Lincoln Laboratory memoranda and reports,
1947-1967
Sub-subseries 1.1.4, Internal committees, 1964-1986
Sub-subseries 1.1.5, President's Science and Advisory Committee,
1967-1974
Sub-subseries 1.1.6, Computer Science and Engineering Board,
1964-1972
Sub-subseries 1.1.7, Subject files, 1952-1990
Sub-subseries 1.1.8, Product design and production, 1967-1979
Correspondence, Sub-subseries 1.1.1,
Bulk, 1958-1970
1958-1992
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries contains correspondence that Olsen received from
others and letters that Olsen authored. Most of the correspondence
ranges from 1958 to 1970, with one outlier dated 1992. Also included
in this sub-subseries are promotional material and pamphlets
attached to correspondence to Olsen. Some of the early letters in
this sub-subseries comprise ongoing correspondence with Sidney
Weinstein of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine detailing
features of the PDP-1 and ARC-1. Other correspondents in this
sub-subseries include Georges F. Doriot, who was an early investor
in DEC; Robert S. McNamara while McNamara was serving as U.S.
Secretary of Defense; and David Packard. Letters in this
sub-subseries relate to the recruitment and interviewing of
prospective employees—including Win Hindle, questions from potential
customers about current and planned product offerings and prices,
inquiries for financial statistics, availability of stock in DEC,
patent issues and infringement claims, customer problems, and
solicitations of support from charitable organizations. Letters to
Olsen and letters from Olsen were mostly kept in separate folders,
which were labeled with this distinction. Indices listing
correspondents and subjects of letters were also sometimes included
in the front or back of folders – though many of these indices are
incomplete drafts. This sub-subseries also contains unprocessed
microfiche of Olsen's correspondence. This sub-subseries is arranged
chronologically.
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Ken Olsen letters, 1958-1961
1958-12-17-1961-12-18
102737455
Ken Olsen letters and memoranda, microfiche
circa 1958-1970
102737375
Ken Olsen letters, 1962-1964
1962-01-08-1964-12-30
102737376
Ken Olsen letters, 1965
1965-01-06-1965-12-31
102737377
Ken Olsen letters, 1966
1966-01-01-1966-12-30
102737378
Ken Olsen letters, 1968
1968-01-01-1968-12-31
102737379
Ken Olsen letters, 1969
1969-01-01-1969-12-31
102737380
Ken Olsen letters, 1970
1970-01-05-1970-10-27
102737381
Ken Olsen letters, 1992
1992-03-20
Memoranda, Sub-subseries 1.1.2,
Bulk, 1960-1970
1959-1984
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries consists of internal DEC memoranda to and from Ken
Olsen primarily from the 1960s. These memoranda relate to: changing
corporate policies and procedures; customer relationships; sales
call reports from Ted Johnson; reports by various Engineers on
recently-released, non-DEC products; possible names for new
products; alternate names for the PDP-1; appropriate quantities of
equipment to be kept on hand; proposals for manufacturing equipment
to be purchased or built; and discussions of design and
manufacturing aspects of work on particular machines. Matters
pertaining to corporate structure and manufacturing plant
organization are also addressed. Memoranda to and from Olsen were
kept in separate folders, which were labeled accordingly. This
sub-subseries also contains a small amount of memoranda to and from
Stephen (Steve) A. Sobel, which were found in Olsen's collection of
memoranda. Sobel's memoranda relate to Schedule Review Committee
meetings and other product development and review activities for
various DEC products. This sub-subseries is arranged
chronologically.
102737382
Ken Olsen memoranda, 1959-1960
1959-08-24-1960-12-29
102737383
Ken Olsen memoranda, 1961
1961-01-04-1961-12-26
102737384
Ken Olsen memoranda, 1962
1962-01-02-1962-12-31
102737385
Ken Olsen memoranda, 1963
1963-01-02-1963-12-30
102737386
Ken Olsen memoranda, 1964
1964-01-02-1964-12-31
102737387
Ken Olsen memoranda, 1965
1965-01-04-1965-12-31
102737388
Ken Olsen memoranda, 1966
1966-01-04-1966-12-30
102737389
Ken Olsen memoranda, 1967
1967-01-05-1967-12-29
102737391
Steve Sobel memoranda
1967-12-12-1969-10-14
102737390
Ken Olsen memoranda, 1968
1968-01-03-1968-12-27
102737392
Ken Olsen memoranda, 1969
1969-01-04-1969-12-29
102737393
Ken Olsen memoranda, 1970
1970-01-04-1970-05-15
102737394
Ken Olsen memoranda, 1981-1984
1981-12-22; 1984-06-04
MIT Lincoln Laboratory memoranda and reports, Sub-subseries 1.1.3,
1947-1967
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries contains the records that Olsen created and
collected during the time he was a student at MIT through the
founding of DEC up until 1967. The Lincoln Laboratory was a
predecessor group for DEC, since Olsen worked there immediately
prior to founding DEC, and because many of DEC's early employees
were also alumni of MIT, the Lincoln Laboratory, and MIT's School
for Industrial Management. Most of the material in this
sub-subseries consists of memoranda, technical papers, and reports
published by MIT's Lincoln Laboratory. MIT's Servomechanisms
Laboratory and Digital Computer Laboratory, which were eventually
absorbed by the Lincoln Laboratory, also published material in this
sub-subseries. Aside from memoranda and technical papers, this
sub-subseries also contains engineering drawings, schematic
diagrams, engineering notes, drafts of books on circuit theory and
thermodynamics, articles, Lincoln Laboratory administrative records,
and one promotional booklet published by Lincoln Laboratory
introducing some of its projects and functions. There is also a
significant amount of material documenting Project Whirlwind and the
development of the Whirlwind I computer at MIT's Servomechanisms
Laboratory. Other systems represented in this sub-subseries include
the TX-0 and TX-2 computers, which were designed and developed under
Olsen's supervision. Lastly, this sub-subseries contains writings
authored by Olsen, including multiple printings of Olsen's thesis,
"A Magnetic Matrix Switch and its Incorporation into a
Coincident-Current Memory," submitted to MIT's Department of
Electrical Engineering in partial fulfillment of the requirements
for the degree of Master of Science in Electrical Engineering. This
sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
102737401
Articles and clippings
1957-1964
102737402
Book drafts and chapters
circa 1953
102737403
Component test reports
1956-1957
102737406
Conference notes and a guide for speakers
1948-1949; 1956
102737399
Engineering drawings schematic diagrams
1954-1957
102737405
Engineering notes
1948-1953
102737400
MIT Instrumentation Laboratory reports
1966-1967
102737404
MIT Lincoln Laboratory administrative records
1956-1960
102737395
MIT Lincoln Laboratory memoranda
1947-1958
102737397
MIT Lincoln Laboratory promotional material
circa 1957
102737398
MIT Lincoln Laboratory technical papers and
reports
1949-1964
102737408
MIT papers and articles authored by Ken Olsen
1950-1957
102737407
MIT School of Industrial Management
1961-1962
102737396
Project Whirlwind
1950-1954
Internal committees, Sub-subseries 1.1.4,
1964-1986
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries consists of material created within specific date
ranges from three internal DEC committees: the Works Committee
(1964-1967), the Operations Committee (1968-1969), and the Marketing
Sales/Strategy Committee (1983-1986). Most of the records in this
sub-subseries appear in the form of meeting minutes and memoranda
sent between committee members. In 1967, the Works Committee was
renamed to the Executive Committee and then renamed again to the
Operations Committee. These committees had budgetary control over
all of the separate product lines at DEC. Product line managers,
group managers, and vice presidents had to go through the Works and
Operations committees to gain support for the products they managed.
Records from the earlier Works Committee include charts titled
“Forecasted Product Line Profitability Summary,” which chart and
predict the finances of different DEC product lines. Related topics
covered in the Operations Committee meetings include salary
administration, product proposals, corporate reorganizations, and
DEC activities at trade shows. This sub-subseries also contains
microfilm reels from Operations Committee meetings ranging from 1970
through 1977. In 1983, the Operations Committee was replaced by
three new committees: the Product Strategy Committee, the
Marketing/Sales Strategy Committee, and the Management Committee.
For more material from the Works and Operations committees, see
“Subseries 9.2, Administrative records: Works and Operations
committees meeting minutes.” The last committee covered in this
sub-subseries, Marketing Sales/Strategy Committee (MSSC), relates to
marketing strategies for various DEC products, pricing proposals,
revenue projections, and marketing effectiveness studies. This
sub-subseries is arranged chronologically.
102737409
Works Committee
1964-1967
102737410
Operations Committee
1968-1969
102737456
Operations Committee microfilm
1970-1977
102737411
Marketing Sales/Strategy Committee (MSSC)
1983-1986
President's Science and Advisory Committee, Sub-subseries 1.1.5,
1967-1974
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries contains memoranda, correspondence, press
releases, and reports from Olsen's participation in the President's
Science and Advisory Committee (PSAC). PSAC was created in 1951
under Harry S. Truman's administration to provide advisory opinions
on science and technology to the executive branch of the federal
government and to influence government agencies. Olsen participated
in PSAC's final years under the Nixon administration, before Nixon
eliminated the program in 1973. Some of the records in this
sub-subseries document the context behind the end of PSAC and
includes a letter from Olsen to the Office of the President
resigning from his position in PSAC. During Olsen's participation,
PSAC was divided into panels, with four to six members with special
expertise in each panel's subject focus advising the Science Adviser
to the President, which in Olsen's time was Edward E. David Jr.
Olsen mainly worked on panels relating to “civilian technology” and
programs that promoted research and development in science and
technology. However, this sub-subseries also contains records
relating to other PSAC initiatives, including health care,
environmental health, energy, education, population control, urban
planning, and unemployment. This sub-subseries is arranged
alphabetically by folder title.
102737412
Energy and natural resources
1970-1973
102737413
Health care, ecology, and public health
1971-1974
102737414
Labor and employment
1971-1972
102737415
Mail and communications research
1969-1972
102737371
Population and urban planning
1971-1972
102737416
President's Science and Advisory Committee meetings,
agendas, and status reports
1971-1972
102737417
President's Science and Advisory Committee members and
administrative correspondence and memoranda
1971-1972
102737418
President's Science and Advisory Committee press
releases
1970-1973
102737419
Science and technology policy and funding
1967-1973
102737420
Superconductivity
1971-1972
102737421
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
agreements
1971-1972
102737422
United States metric study
1971
102737423
Youth and education policy
1969-1973
Computer Science and Engineering Board, Sub-subseries 1.1.6,
1964-1972
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries contains the records that Olsen collected during
his time on the National Academy of Science's Computer Science and
Engineering Board (CS&E). The Computer Science & Engineering
Board was created in 1968 by the National Academy of Sciences to
study the role of the computer in the economy and culture of the
nation. The Board also advised parts of the federal government “to
ensure U.S. leadership in the various fields of computer science and
engineering.” Olsen was involved in CS&E activities relating to
a “computer export problem” involving aspects of competition in
international computing industries. The CS&E panel that Olsen
served was called the Export Panel. Included in this sub-subseries
are agendas and meeting minutes from various CS&E meetings and
conferences; administrative correspondence; National Academy of
Sciences overviews, directories, and promotional material;
Congressional records and legislative material; press releases; and
information related to developing programs for computer science
education. Much of the correspondence in this sub-subseries involves
Anthony G. Oettinger, founder and chairman of CS&E from 1967 to
1973 and Warren C. House, Executive Secretary for the Board. This
sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
102737430
Administrative correspondence
1968-1971
102737424
Computer Science and Engineering Board meetings,
1968
1968
102737425
Computer Science and Engineering Board meetings,
1969
1969
102737426
Computer Science and Engineering Board meetings,
1970
1970
102737427
Computer Science and Engineering Board meetings,
1971
1971
102737428
Computer science education
1968-1970
102737429
Congressional records and legislation
1968-1972
102737431
National Academy of Sciences overviews, directories, and
promotional material
1964-1970
102737432
Press releases
1967-1968
102737433
Reference material external to the National Academy of
Sciences
1968-1969
102737434
Reports and articles
1967-1972
Subject files, Sub-subseries 1.1.7,
1952-1990
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries comprises material that Olsen collected on various
topics relating to research or DEC administrative concerns. Research
topics covered in this sub-subseries include military technologies,
transportation, multinational corporations and international trade,
national productivity, and aeronautics. Some of this research
material relates to Olsen's participation in the President's Science
and Advisory Committee (PSAC), though none of the files in this
sub-subseries were stored with Olsen's PSAC material and they seem
to reflect some of Olsen's independent research as well. This
sub-subseries also contains DEC-related records, including material
relating to the "International Digital Clean Room and Cleaning
Technology Conference," DEC building blocks (system plug-in units),
a small number of personnel records, and memoranda about a magnetic
core memory patent. This sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically by
folder title.
102737364
A magnetic matrix switch and its incorporation into a
coincident-current memory
1952
102737365
Aeronautics and space technology
1971-1972
102737366
Cleaning technologies
1989
102737435
Computer Strategy Committee index
1975
102737438
DEC building blocks (system plug-in units)
1957-1958
102737436
DEC personnel records
1958-1964
102737367
Magnetic core memory patent
1990
102737370
Military technology
1972-1973
102737368
Multinational corporations and international
trade
1971-1972
102737369
National productivity
1971-1972
102737437
PEPR and other systems
1962
102737372
Transportation
1971-1972
102737373
U.S. Senate hearing on computer and communications
service and technology
1982
Product design and production, Sub-subseries 1.1.8,
1967-1979
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries contains records collected by Olsen relating to
the design and production of various DEC products. Included in this
sub-subseries are memoranda, business plans, financial records,
engineering status reports, presentation material, and a small
number of design drawings covering a variety of issues encountered
during product development and manufacture. Comparisons to
competitors' products are also included. Of all the products covered
in this sub-subseries, the PDP-11 product line is the most
documented. This sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder
title.
102737439
DECSYSTEM-2020
1977-1978
102737440
Engineering status reports
1969
102737441
KL10 processors
1972
102737442
LA30L and LA36
1972-1976
102737443
MIL-11
circa 1975
102737446
PDP-10
1970-1976
102737447
PDP-11
1971-1978
102737448
PDP-15 and PDP-16
1970-1973
102737444
PDP-8 / LSI-8
1971-1975
102737445
PDP-X PERT chart, cycle 2, mod 1
circa 1967
102737449
RK-05 and RK-06
1971-1974
102737450
RSL-1 and RSX-11D
1973-1975
102737451
RT-02 and RT-11
1972-1975
102737452
TU-10, TU-16, and TU-60
1971-1974
102737453
VAX-11
1975-1978
102737454
VT-05, VT-20, VT-30, VT-50, and VT-100
1971-1979
Harlan Anderson papers, Subseries 1.2,
1959-1966
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries is made up of material collected and created by Harlan E.
Anderson, who co-founded DEC in 1957 along with Ken Olsen after the two
had worked together at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory. Anderson served as
DEC's executive vice president until 1966, when he left after a falling
out with Olsen. He managed finance, sales, and the PDP-6 product line
while at DEC. Material dates from 1959 to 1966. Most of this subseries
is made up of correspondence and memoranda to and from Anderson related
to various DEC technologies and systems—particularly the PDP
subseries—clients, and sales. Attachments like reports, diagrams, and
articles are frequently included. Before the entire collection was
processed, 16 letters and memos from or to Anderson were individually
cataloged and digitized. Of particular interest within this digitized
group is a 1961 proposal to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to use a PDP-1
during the Mariner project, a 1959 memo about what to name the PDP
series, and a 1959 list of prospective PDP-1 customers. This subseries
also contains DEC Biweekly Reports from 1959 to 1966, which detail
progress and plans for various DEC projects. There is also a small
amount of material related to the development and lease of the PDP-6
line, including operation plans, market analyses, product strategies,
budgets, sales information, and the details of a failed agreement with
Charles W. Adams Associates to lease a PDP-6 for Adams' Keydata
Corporation division, which was ultimately terminated due to DEC's
failure to fulfill its obligations. The PDP-6 material is of particular
interest because it offers a glimpse of a system's development from
analysis to sale. Anderson was involved with the Eastern Joint Computer
Conference as the head of the publications committee in 1959, and later
the general chairman in 1966, and this subseries contains a small amount
of material related to the 1959 conference, including submitted papers,
a program, financial statements, and correspondence regarding
proceedings. Lastly, there is a small group of Small Computer Guidance
Committee meeting minutes from 1964 to 1965. This subseries is arranged
alphabetically by folder title.
102750036
Charles W. Adams Associates PDP-6 lease records
1962-1965
102664962
Copy of price quote given to Sylvania Electric Products
Inc.
1963-05-25
102750011
Correspondence from Anderson
1960-1966
102664961
Correspondence from Massachusetts Institute of Technology
School of Industrial Management
1962-01-05
102750014
Correspondence to Anderson
1962-1966
102664169
DEC biweekly report from 1959-10-30
1959-10-30
102664168
DEC biweekly report from 1960-09-16
1960-09-16
102750017
DEC biweekly reports
1959-1966
102750025
Eastern Joint Computer Conference 1959 papers
1959
102750024
Eastern Joint Computer Conference 1959 records
1959-1960
102664963
Letter from Jordan J. Baruch of Bolt Beranek and Newman
Inc.
1963-01-08
102750026
Memoranda from Anderson
1961-1965
102750027
Memoranda to Anderson
1959-1966
102664965
Memorandum about Jay Forrester's study of DEC's sales
program
1959-12-31
102664969
Memorandum about the CRT inquiry from Sam
Phillips
1960-06-09
102664964
Memorandum from Anderson about Bolt Beranek & Newman
Inc.
1959-12-21
102664167
Memorandum from Anderson about DEC's participation in a
parachute contest
1962-07-23
102664967
Memorandum from Ted Johnson to Sales
1959-11-09
102664968
Memorandum to Anderson about naming the PDP
1959-08-26
102664966
Memorandum to Anderson about PDP customer
prospects
1959-12-10
102664970
Memorandum to Anderson about the noncomputer applications of
PDP-1
1960-03-18
102664960
Parachute Club of America records
1962
102664166
PDP computer presentation invitation
1961-11-06
102664165
PDP-1 proposal to Jet Propulsion Laboratory for use during
the Mariner project
1961-06-27
102750037
PDP-6 development records
1965
102750039
Policies and procedures manual draft
undated
102750038
Present pricing procedures report
1962-05-29
102750040
Small Computer Guidance Committee meeting minutes
1964-1965
Win Hindle papers, Subseries 1.3,
1958-1994
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries contains memoranda, notes, correspondence, and other
material primarily created by Winston R. Hindle Jr., Senior Vice
President of DEC's Corporate Operations. Much of this subseries relates
to the administrative committees that Hindle participated in, including
the Executive Committee and Operations Committee. Also included are
records reflecting business strategy and capital investment that DEC
received from sources external to the company. Of particular interest is
the material in this subseries relating to Georges F. Doriot, one of the
first American venture capitalists. Doriot founded one of the earliest
venture capital firms, American Research and Development Corporation
(ARDC), which provided the initial capital for Ken Olsen and Harlan
Anderson to begin DEC's operation. This subseries contains
correspondence from Hindle to Doriot, the transcript of a 1978 interview
with Doriot, some of Doriot's notes on DEC, and records from a Georges
F. Doriot memorial service that DEC participated in. Also included is a
copy of the 1957 proposal for Doriot's firm, ARDC, to invest in DEC.
Other external guidance documented in this subseries came from The
Research Board Inc., an international think tank organization that
guided DEC in operational strategies. Other records in this subseries
include a transcript of an interview conducted with Hindle in 1994 and
promotional material and development records for early DEC products –
including LINC (Laboratory INstrument Computer) and PDP-6. This
subseries had previously been arranged and divided into small series by
the DEC archives. Because of their small size, these original series
from the DEC archives were transferred into individual catalog records
under this single subseries. The last series in the DEC archives
arrangement was titled “Miscellaneous.” Each topic that was previously
grouped under the miscellaneous series was given its own catalog record.
The arrangement of the material in this subseries reflects the original
order of the DEC archives series.
102737349
Research Board, The
1983-1994
102737350
Executive Committee
1984-1992
102737351
Operations Committee
1969-1987
102737352
Corporate policies
1985-1991
102737353
International operations
1969-1985
102737354
Products
1963-1987
102737355
DEC history
1958-1987
102737356
Committee structures
1975-1984
102737357
Georges F. Doriot
1971-1987
102737358
Company divisions
1982-1989
102737359
Heald Pond meetings
1989-1991
102737360
Manufacturing plant profiles
1992-02-11
102737361
Win Hindle interview transcript
1994
102737362
Sales force photo album
circa 1980
102737363
Purchasing strategies
1984
Gordon Bell papers, Subseries 1.4,
Bulk, 1974-1983
1966-1983
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries consists of material primarily collected by Chester Gordon
Bell while he was DEC's vice president of engineering from 1972 to 1983.
Material dates from 1966 to 1983, with the bulk from 1974 to 1983. Bell
began his career at DEC in 1960 as an engineer who was instrumental in
the design of the PDP series of computers. He designed the PDP-1's
input-output subsystem and the PDP-11 Unibus, and he was the architect
of the PDP-4 and PDP-6, co-architect of the PDP-5, and a consultant on
the design of the PDP-11. As vice president of engineering, Bell led the
development of the VAX computer family.
Arrangement
This subseries is arranged into four sub-subseries:
Sub-subseries 1.4.1, Product development and research records, 1966-1983,
bulk 1974-1983
Sub-subseries 1.4.2, Product and engineering strategy planning,
1977-1983
Sub-subseries 1.4.3, Correspondence and memoranda, 1970-1983
Sub-subseries 1.4.4, Computer Engineering book drafts, 1977-1978
Product development and research records, Sub-subseries 1.4.1
Bulk, 1974-1983
1966-1983
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries is made up of material related to the research and
development of various DEC systems and technologies from 1966 to
1983, with the bulk from 1974 to 1983. The majority of material is
related to the development of VAX systems, including the VAX-11/780
(code name Star), VAX 8600 (code name Venus), VAX 8700/8800 (code
name Nautilus), and MicroVAX I (code name Seahorse), and the V-11
microprocessor chip set (code name Scorpio). The V-11 and VAX 8600
have the most material of all the systems, and this includes project
requirements, project proposals, system development plans, business
plans, technical descriptions, specifications, design drawings,
performance estimates, and project status documents. Also included
is material on the early research and development of the
technologies that became VAX. Besides VAX systems, this
sub-subseries also contains material related to the research and
development of the PDP series of computers and the canceled Jupiter
project, multiprocessors, memory and storage, and personal
computers. Of particular interest is one of Bell's notebooks filled
with his handwritten notes from circa 1975. Also included are memos
and meeting minutes from the Office of Development and articles and
papers by various authors, including DEC staff, on distributed
information systems, editors, office communications systems,
artificial intelligence, time-sharing, networking, and UNIX. This
sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
102750043
Articles and papers
1966; 1974-1979
102750028
Bell notebook
circa 1975
102750034
Early VAX development
1974-1976
102750023
Jupiter
1979-1983
102750022
Memory and storage
1977-1982
102750029
MicroVAX I (Seahorse)
1983
102750044
Multiprocessors
1975-1977
102750016
Office of Development records
1974-1975
102750005
PDP series
1974-1979
102750031
Personal computers
1972-1979
102750035
Proposal for a joint effort in personal scientific
computing
1979
102750021
Proposal for an electrical engineering
casebook
1983
102750015
Trilogy Systems
1983
102750032
V-11 (Scorpio)
1982-1983
102750030
VAX 8600 (Venus)
1979-1983
102750042
VAX 8700/8800 (Nautilus)
1981
102750033
VAX-11/780 (Star)
1975-1979
Product and engineering strategy planning, Sub-subseries 1.4.2,
1977-1983
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries is made up of material related to the strategic
planning of DEC's products and engineering department from 1977 to
1983.. Included are product strategy reports, budget reviews,
engineering strategy overviews, and Red Books and Beige Books, which
were the Central Engineering department's reports on product,
market, and support project long-range plans. A 1983 DEC
organizational chart is also included. This sub-subseries is
arranged alphabetically by folder title.
102750046
Engineering strategy overview reports
1981-1982
102750048
Organizational charts
1982-1983
102750019
Product strategy and budget reviews
1982
102750049
Red and Beige books
1977-1981
Correspondence and memoranda, Sub-subseries 1.4.3
1970-1983
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries contains correspondence and memoranda that were
sent to and from Bell from 1970 to 1983. Topics include engineering
budgets, product and marketing strategies, the PDP-11, VAX systems
and low-end VAX, extended memory, a computer program for deaf
people, the Office of Development, personal computing, WPS, VT278,
Scorpio, and the BI module. Also included are related notes and
attachments, such as proposals, product descriptions and summaries,
reports, and papers. This sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically
by folder title.
102750020
Correspondence and memoranda from 1970-1975
1970-1974
102750050
Correspondence and memoranda from 1979-1983
1979-1983
Computer Engineering book drafts, Sub-subseries 1.4.4,
1977-1978
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries consists of drafts, notes, and prepublication
reviews of the book Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware
Systems Design by Bell, J. Craig Mudge, and John E. McNamara and
published in 1978. Material dates from 1977 to 1978. The book is
organized into five parts, and included here are drafts of the
opening chapters and first three parts of the book, which comprise
chapters 1 through 17, plus drafts of the preface, forward, table of
contents, references, and bibliography. There are no drafts for
parts four of five or the appendices. Most drafts have handwritten
editing marks and comments by reviewers. Also included are
prepublication reviews of the entire book, which include both
positive and negative reviews. This sub-subseries is arranged
alphabetically by folder title.
102750051
Chapter 1 : seven views of computer systems
1978
102750045
Chapters 2 and 3 : technology, packaging, and
manufacturing
1977-1978
102750052
Part I : in the beginning
1978
102750053
Part II : beginning of the minicomputer
1977-1978
102750054
Part III : the PDP-11 family
1977-1978
102750055
Preface
1977-1978
102750056
Preliminary draft review copies
1978
102750057
Prepublication reviews
1978
102750058
Project management checklists
1978
102750059
Table of contents, forward, references, and
bibliography
1978
Russ Gullotti papers, Subseries 1.5,
Bulk, 1991-1994
1979-1995
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries is made up of material collected and created by Russell
(Russ) A. Gullotti from 1979 to 1995, with the bulk from 1991 to 1994.
Gullotti was with DEC from 1977 to 1994, and during that time he held a
variety of leadership roles, including president of sales and service
for the Americas area from 1992 to 1994. He also served as vice
president of several DEC departments, including U.S. sales and service,
the global service organization, enterprise integration systems,
manufacturing, and Digital Services.
Arrangement
This subseries is arranged into three sub-subseries:
Sub-subseries 1.5.1, Group and committee records, 1979-1995, bulk
1989-1994
Sub-subseries 1.5.2, Customer records, 1988-1995, bulk 1992-1994
Sub-subseries 1.5.3, Corporate polices, guides, and reports,
1986-1994
Group and committee records, Sub-subseries 1.5.1,
Bulk, 1989-1994
1979-1995
Sub-subseries scope and Content
This sub-subseries contains material related to various DEC
committees, business units, and groups, from 1979 to 1995, with the
bulk from 1989 to 1994. The majority of material is related to DEC's
1992 reorganization into business units and the planning that went
into it, including business plans and Business Unit Committee
records; the administration of the Americas and U.S. territory sales
and service departments that Gullotti oversaw, including planning
reports, organizational charts, policies and procedures, employee
surveys, and Gullotti's memos; and the planning of the New Hampshire
School Improvement Program (SIP), which Gullotti was involved with
as a member of the New Hampshire Business Roundtable on Education.
Other groups, committees, and units with material in this
sub-subseries include the Audit Committee, Computer Special Systems,
Digital Consulting, Digital Services, Educational Services,
Enterprise Integration Services, the Healthcare Business Unit, the
Investment Committee, the Operations Committee, and the Personal
Computer Business Unit. This sub-subseries is arranged
alphabetically by folder title.
102739765
Americas and U.S. territory sales and service
1991-1994
102739777
Audit Committee
1992-1994
102739762
Business units planning
1991-1994
102739776
Complementary Solutions Organizations Group
1993
102739759
Computer Special Systems
1979-1981; 1994
102739795
Customer Value Chain Program
1994
102739766
Digital Consulting
1994
102739780
Digital Pricing Program
1993
102739758
Digital Services
1992
102739760
Educational Services
1988-1989
102739863
Enterprise Integration Services
1990
102739763
Executive Committee and Product Committee
1991
102739764
Healthcare Business Unit
1992
102739757
Investment Committee
1992-1994
102739769
New Hampshire School Improvement Program and Business
Roundtable on Education
1989-1994
102739761
Operations Committee
1990-1992
102739768
Personal Computer Business Unit
1993
Sales and service customer records, Sub-subseries 1.5.2,
Bulk, 1992-1994
1988-1995
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries consists almost entirely of correspondence between
customers and DEC regarding customers' complaints and the concerns
they have with the direction DEC is headed after the reorganization
in 1992. Material dates from 1988 to 1995, with the bulk from 1992
to 1994. Many of the letters from customers detail the problems they
are having working with DEC, including repeated changes in their
customer service representatives and a lag in DEC's responsiveness,
and how it negatively impacts their business. The correspondence and
memoranda in this sub-subseries show that Gullotti, as head of sales
and service in the Americas area, was heavily involved with allaying
his customers' worries and trying to find solutions to their
complaints, frequently responding to them personally. Also included
are customer satisfaction surveys from 1993 and 1994, which rate DEC
poorly, and listings for national accounts and the Executive Partner
Program. This sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder
title, and the folder titles are the names of each company.
102739782
Advanced Digital Data
1993
102739784
Alberto Culver
1993
102739806
All Vietnam Consulting
1993-1994
102739783
Alpha Computer Solutions
1993-1994
102739786
ARINC
1991-1993
102739781
Asea Brown Boveri (ABB)
1993
102739787
ASK Computer Systems
1992-1993
102739788
AT&T
1988; 1993
102739789
Avnet
1993-1994
102739791
Bell Atlantic
1993
102739792
Boeing
1992-1994
102739810
Carnegie Mellon University
1994
102739807
Circuit City
1994
102739808
City of Los Angeles
1993
102739809
Cleek, Jim
1994-1995
102739805
Computer Fulfillment
1993-1994
102739794
Customer satisfaction surveys
1993-1994
102739811
Digita1sss
1994
102739804
Dow Chemical Co.
1988-1989
102739815
E. & J. Gallo Winery
1993
102739799
Earle M. Jorgensen Co.
1994
102739813
Eastern Bank
1993
102739812
Ecology and Environment
1993
102739814
Electrical Generation Technology
1993
102739817
General Electric
1992-1993
102739819
Guyre Associates
1993
102739798
Houghton-Mifflin
1994
102739860
Household International
1994
102739827
Information Builders
1993
102739802
Johns Hopkins University
1994
102739829
Kubota Pacific Computer
1994
102739858
LogisTechs
1994
102739800
Logitech
1993-1994
102739801
MasPar Computer Corp.
1994
102739830
Mast Industries
1992-1994
102739816
Mobile Telecommunications Technologies (MTEL)
1994
102739833
Monsanto
1992-1994
102739835
National accounts and Executive Partner Program
listings
1988-1992
102739837
National Computer Systems (NCS)
1993-1994
102739836
Nazareth College
1993
102739838
North Texas Commission
1993
102739821
On Deck Solutions
1993
102739845
Optus Communications
1993
102739847
Oracle
1993-1994
102739797
Origin Technology in Business/Dallas Inc.
1994
102739841
Paul Revere
1993
102739842
Perrier
1993-1994
102739843
Philps LMS
1994
102739846
Pioneer
1992-1994
102739859
Pueblo County Information and Computer
Services
1993
102739803
RealTime Software
1994
102739823
Rocket Science
1993
102739849
Royal Air Force
undated
102739822
Santee Cooper
1993
102739861
SHL Systemhouse
1994
102739824
Sierra Health Services
1993
102739850
SONDA
1991-1994
102739851
Standard & Poor's Compustat Services
1993
102739853
Sylvest Management Systems
1992
102739852
TAC-4
1993-1994
102739855
Target Systems
1993
102739856
Toys "R" Us
1993
102739857
Wyle Laboratories
1993
Corporate policies, guides, and reports, Sub-subseries 1.5.3,
1986-1994
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries is composed of DEC administrative material from
1986 to 1994. Employee guides and corporate policy and procedure
manuals make up the bulk of material. Also included are sales and
earnings reports from 1986 to 1990, and a 1990 Engineering Beige
Book, which summarizes engineering product and support project
plans, and its related Yellow Book, which reports updates and
changes to those plans. This sub-subseries is arranged
alphabetically by folder title.
102739773
Client Server Leadership Education Program managers'
guide
1994
102739772
Corporate policies manual
1994
102739778
Digital advantage brochure
1987
102739767
Engineering Beige Book
1989
102739775
Ethics philosophy statement manager's advice
package
1993
102739779
European mission and objectives : corporate philosophy
and ethics
1986
102739774
Marketing Ventures Partnership (MVP) Program
kit
1993
102739771
Personnel policies and procedures manual
1994
102739864
Sales and earnings reports
1986-1990
102739770
Sales operations manual
1994
Engineers' papers, Series 2,
Bulk, 1970-1998
1951-2002
Series Scope and Content
This series is made up of the papers of DEC engineers, dating from 1951 to
2002, with the bulk of material from 1970 to 1998. The focus of the material
is on the research and development of various DEC technologies and products,
with the majority related to the computer systems VAX and PDP, processors,
computer architecture, semiconductors, and modules. In particular, there is
a large amount of material on the development of the PDP-10 family of
computers and its operating systems in both the Mike Uhler papers and the
Tim Litt collection; the PRISM and Alpha architectures in the Chip Nylander,
Dileep Bhandarkar, and Uhler subseries; DECnet network protocols in David
Mitton's records; and modules from DEC's early years in the Dick Best papers
and for the PDP-8 and LSI-11 in the Don White papers.
Arrangement
This series is arranged into nine subseries:
Subseries 2.1, Mike Uhler papers, 1970-1994
Subseries 2.2, Tim Litt collection, 1965-2002, bulk 1979-1998
Subseries 2.3, Walter Metz papers, 1962-1991, bulk 1980-1991
Subseries 2.4, Chip Nylander PRISM and MIPS records, 1976-1990
Subseries 2.5, David Mitton DECnet records, 1977-1990
Subseries 2.6, Dick Best papers, 1951-2001, bulk 1959-1984
Subseries 2.7, Don White papers, 1960-1987
Subseries 2.8, David Morgan microprocessor records, 1984-1999
Subseries 2.9, Dileep Bhandarkar papers, 1977-1989
Mike Uhler papers, Subseries 2.1,
1970-1994
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries contains material collected and created by DEC senior
consulting engineer G. Michael (Mike) Uhler from 1970 to 1994. During
his time at DEC, Uhler worked on the development of VAX and Alpha system
architecture and VAX microprocessor chips.
Arrangement
This subseries is arranged into five sub-subseries:
Sub-subseries 2.1.1, VAX development records, 1979-1993
Sub-subseries 2.1.2, PDP-10 development records, 1970-1984
Sub-subseries 2.1.3, Alpha and PRISM development records, 1984-1994
Sub-subseries 2.1.4, Other systems and technologies research files,
1974-1992
Sub-subseries 2.1.5, Engineering notebooks, 1983-1994
VAX development records, Sub-subseries 2.1.1,
1979-1993
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries is made up of material related to the development
of various VAX computer systems and processors, from 1979 to1993.
Uhler led the architecture development and microcoding of the NVAX
and Rigel VAX microprocessors, and this sub-subseries has a large
amount of material related to both, including bus and chip
specifications, planning and design development records, and
performance analyses. Also included is material related to the VAX
computer systems 11/750 (Comet), 6000 (Calypso and Neptune), 8600
(Venus), 8700-8800 (Nautilus), and 9000 (Aquarius), and the canceled
systems Argonaut, BVAX, and Raven. There is also material on other
VAX processors, microprocessors, and chips, memory, and the VMS
operating system. This sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically by
folder title.
102749949
Argonaut system
1986-1988
102749968
Branch predictions
1984; 1993
102749969
Bus proposals
1983-1988
102749967
Distributed systems
1989
102749950
Frigate processor
1984-1985
102749973
HyperVAX
1982-1983
102749951
Mariah microprocessor
1987-1989
102749972
Memory
circa 1980-1990
102749974
Microcode tools
1979-1983
102749975
MicroVAX
1984-1986
102749977
Multiprocessing
1979-1986
102749954
NVAX microprocessor performance analysis
1984-1991
102749953
NVAX microprocessor planning and design
1988-1991
102749955
NVAX microprocessor presentations
1989-1992
102749956
NVAX microprocessor specifications
1989-1991
102749978
Parallel processor array : DEC's largest
computer
1983
102749985
Performance analysis
1981-1991
102749952
Raven system
1988-1989
102749958
Rigel microprocessor performance analysis
1984-1989
102749957
Rigel microprocessor planning and design
1983-1989
102749960
Rigel microprocessor presentations
1984-1988
102749959
Rigel microprocessor specifications
1986-1988
102749987
Starling VLSI processor set
1988
102749980
System on a chip architecture
1988-1989
102749981
Trilogy Systems
1983-1984
102749982
V-11 miniprocessor chip set (Scorpio)
1982-1987
102749961
VAX 11/750 (Comet)
1983-1987
102749989
VAX 6000
1985-1991
102749962
VAX 8600 (Venus)
1982-1984
102749963
VAX 8700/8800 (Nautilus)
1983-1987
102749964
VAX 9000 (Aquarius)
1986-1991
102749983
VAX architecture
1981-1988
102749966
VAXclusters
1987-1990
102749986
Virtual VAX
1986-1988
102749965
VMS operating system
1982-1991
PDP-10 development records, Sub-subseries 2.1.2,
1970-1984
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries consists of material related to the development of
the PDP-10 supercomputer family. Material dates from 1970 to 1984.
Included are project proposals, microcode, large design drawings,
and specifications for the PDP-10 models KC10, KC14, KD10, KL10, and
KS10. There is also material on the canceled systems Dolphin and
Jupiter, with Jupiter having the most material of all the models in
this sub-subseries. Also included is material related to PDP-10
architecture, performance analyses, and the operating systems
TOPS-10, TOPS-20, and RSX-20F. This sub-subseries is arranged
alphabetically by folder title.
102739895
Dolphin design development
1975-1982
102749912
File archiving
1977-1980
102739899
Jupiter design development
1979-1983
102739903
KC10 microcode and design drawings
1982-1984
102739908
KC14 console and input/output design drawings
1982
102739900
KD10 proposal
1983
102739902
KL10 development, microcode, and block
diagrams
1975-1984
102739901
KS10 microcode and block diagram
1978-1984
102739904
PDP-10 architecture
1970-1983
102739905
PDP-10 performance
1973-1977
102749910
RSX-20F operating system
1976-1980
102739907
Third-party PDP-10 proposals
1983
102739897
TOPS-10 planning
1977-1984
102739898
TOPS-20 dump on BUGCHK
1981
Alpha and PRISM development records, Sub-subseries 2.1.3,
1984-1994
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
The majority of material in this sub-subseries is related to the
development of DEC's Alpha RISC architecture and line of
microprocessors. Only a small amount of material relates to the
PRISM RISC architecture project and its subprojects the Shrike
workstation and Emerald operating system. The PRISM project was
canceled in 1988 before its completion, and Alpha was based on
PRISM's design. Material dates from 1984 to 1994. The majority of
Alpha material is related to the system's microprocessors, including
specifications and design drawings for the Alpha 21064 (EV-4) and
its variants 21066 and 21068 (also known as Low-Cost Alpha), 21164
(EV-5), 21264 (EV-6), and other support chips. There is also
material related to Alpha's architecture, memory, graphics, and
performance. This sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder
title.
102749937
Alpha 21064 (EV-4) microprocessor
1989-1992
102749939
Alpha 21066 and 21068 microprocessors
1991-1993
102749945
Alpha 21164 (EV-5) microprocessor
1991-1994
102749936
Alpha 21264 (EV-6) microprocessor
1992-1993
102749941
Alpha architecture
1992-1993
102749948
Alpha graphics and multimedia
1992-1994
102749938
Alpha performance
1991-1994
102749944
Alpha support chips
1992-1994
102749947
Clustered computing
undated
102749946
GEM compiler system
1992
102749940
PRISM
1984-1990
102749943
Windows NT
1993
Other systems and technologies research files, Sub-subseries 2.1.4,
1974-1992
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries contains material from 1974 to 1992 that is
related to other computer technologies and DEC projects not specific
to the systems in the previous sub-subseries. The material not
produced by DEC includes research articles and reports on various
engineering topics, such as buses, processors, chips, CMOS
technology, memory, performance, reliability, and human factors in
computing. Material created by DEC includes development and research
files on several of the company's engineering projects, including
the Kestrel processor and other processors, CMOS 4 and 6, various
buses, workstations, ULTRIX, and the PDP-14. This sub-subseries is
arranged alphabetically by folder title.
102749911
Buses
1989-1994
102749916
CMOS technology
1988-1993
102749926
Design verification and simulation
1982-1988
102749920
DX20 / RP20 / TX02
1979-1982
102749928
Graphics and multimedia
1993-1994
102749934
Hardware concepts for advanced compilers
1993
102749932
Human factors in computing
1982
102749915
Kestrel processor
1988-1989
102749933
Keyboards
undated
102749917
Memory
1975-1993
102749929
Networks
1979; 1991-1992
102749931
Object and capability based systems
1981
102749923
OM-based tools
1993
102749925
Optimization
1990-1993
102739896
PDP-14 maintenance manual
1974
102749919
Performance analysis and engineering
1986-1994
102739906
Processor design and specifications
1983-1994
102749927
Reliability
1987-1989
102749930
Security
1988-1994
102749922
Software portability
1990
102749924
Standard Performance Evaluation Corp. (SPEC)
1991-1993
102749921
ULTRIX
1987-1991
102749918
Workstations
1983-1991
Engineering notebooks, Sub-subseries 2.1.5,
1983-1994
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries is made up of Uhler's engineering notebooks from
1983 to 1994. The notebooks contain Uhler's handwritten notes, with
related documents stapled inside. Some notebooks are labeled as
specific to a project, such as the PDP-10 model KD10, the Rigel
microprocessor, the EV-6 (Alpha 21264) microprocessor, and system
management, but most are simply labeled with the date and include
notes on varying topics and projects. This sub-subseries is arranged
chronologically.
102749913
June 1983 to March 1989
1983-1989
102749914
April 1989 to July 1994
1989-1994
Tim Litt collection, Subseries 2.2,
Bulk, 1979-1998
1965-2002
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries consists of material created and collected by Timothe
(Tim) Litt, whose career mirrored the trajectories of many of DEC's
later products, moving beyond DEC to Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, and Intel.
Litt worked at DEC from 1979 to 1998 in many roles relating to software
engineering and DEC's Large Computer Group (LCG) – ending his career
there as a senior consultant engineer. After DEC was acquired by Compaq
in 1998, Litt moved there as well, working as a principal member of
Compaq's technical staff. Then, the same year that Compaq merged with
Hewlett-Packard (HP) in 2002, Litt began working at HP as distinguished
technologist. Finally, Litt finished his career at Intel, where DEC's
semiconductor and Alpha microprocessor groups eventually moved. Material
that was distributed to employees during DEC's acquisitions and mergers
with Compaq and HP can be found in this subseries. One focus of Litt's
collection is the development of the PDP-10 mainframe computer family.
Specific PDP-10 models that are more documented in this subseries
include the KS10, KL10 (also marketed as DECsystem-10), and
DECsystem-20. This subseries also holds significant information on the
operating systems developed for PDP-10 computers, TOPS-10 and TOPS-20,
along with the smaller software programs used within those systems.
Arrangement
This subseries is arranged into nine sub-subseries:
Sub-subseries 2.2.1, Background research and corporate communications,
1973-2002
Sub-subseries 2.2.2, Product development, 1968-1998, bulk 1975-1993
Sub-subseries 2.2.3, DECUS records, 1971-1999
Sub-subseries 2.2.4, Promotional and sales material, 1971-2001
Sub-subseries 2.2.5, KL10 records, 1971-1989
Sub-subseries 2.2.6, TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 software performance reports,
1983-1990
Sub-subseries 2.2.7, Manuals, 1965-1998
Sub-subseries 2.2.8, Periodicals, 1973-2002, bulk 1980-1998
Sub-subseries 2.2.9, Course material, 1974-1986
Background research and corporate communications, Sub-subseries 2.2.1,
1973-2002
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries contains background files and corporate-wide
communications for employees of DEC, Compaq, and Hewlett-Packard,
which Litt collected during his time at all three companies.
Included are articles and clippings from various non-DEC
publications, many of which relate to the 1998 merger between DEC
and Compaq and the 2002 merger between Compaq and Hewlett-Packard.
Also relevant to these mergers, this sub-subseries contains a
"Compaq/DIGITAL Merger Communications and Engagement Kit for DIGITAL
Services Managers," "Compaq Services: A New Beginning Communication
Kit," and instructional material for Compaq employees during the
Compaq-Hewlett-Packard integrations. Two separate collections of
microform are also contained in this sub-subseries. The first of
these is the Reed Powell collection of 105mm duplicate microfiche, a
collection of microfiche labeled and arranged in a numerical system
that documents manuals, specifications, internal memoranda, DECUS
proceedings, periodicals, product development records, and
promotional material. Reed Powell was an employee of DEC who had
various roles in technical marketing and sales, software support,
and DECUS. In a 1982 directory of DEC's Large Computer Group
(LCG)—also included in this sub-subseries—Powell is listed as LCG's
principal technical support specialist. The second collection of
microform in this sub-subseries is a set of eleven microfilm rolls,
also arranged in a numerical system, that contain DECUS proceedings,
manuals, and course material. Lastly, material relating to
competitors' products, a small amount of manufacturing financial
records, and personnel reference guides are included here. One
helpful personnel reference guide in this sub-subseries is a
pamphlet for new DEC employees completely devoted to writing out all
of DEC's internal acronyms. This sub-subseries is arranged
alphabetically by folder title.
102737464
ARPANET directory and Defense Data Network (DDN)
protocols
1982; 1985
102737460
Articles and clippings
1975; 1980; 1989-1990;
1998-2002
102737459
Biomation logic analyzers
1981
102737461
Compaq-Digital Equipment Corporation merger employee
kits
1998
102737462
Compaq-Hewlett-Packard merger
2001
102737463
Dartmouth College BASIC documentation
1973
102737465
Digital Pathways and the Timing Control Unit
(TCU-150)
1979
102737466
DIGITAL services vision 2001engagement kit
2001
102737467
Ken Olsen interview transcript
1988
102737468
Manufacturing markets and finances
1977
102737577
Michigan Bell customer file
1985-1989
102737469
Personnel reference guides and services
1979-1994
102737529
Reed Powell collection of 105mm duplicate
microfiche
circa 1977-1994
102737530
Tim Litt collection of microfilm
circa 1973-1994
Product development, Sub-subseries 2.2.2,
Bulk, 1975-1993
1968-1998
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries comprises Litt's collected program listings,
engineering drawings and schematics, design guides, specifications,
and other technical documentation relating to DEC's product
development. Products with significant amounts of material in this
sub-subseries include the VAX 9000 family of computers (code-named
Aquarius) and PDP-10-related systems, including KL10 and KI10 models
and the TOPS-10 operating system. This sub-subseries also contains a
large quantity of design guides and “technology files” from DEC's
Semiconductor Engineering Group and CMOS Process Integration Group
relating to various CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor)
systems. Laboratory notebooks from multiple DEC engineers are also
included in this sub-subseries, along with documentation of
engineering standards and instructions at DEC. Another major part of
these records consists of engineering drawings and program listings.
Hidden among program listings for DEC products are game listings
that Litt and other engineers created and/or edited, for games
including TREKII (Star Trek-related) and SNIPER. This sub-subseries
also includes a large number of backups of software, systems,
databases, and internal inventories on magnetic tape and optical
disk cartridges. These backups are mostly related to TOPS-10 and
TOPS-20, TOPS-10 on the XKL TOAD-1, KL10 and other PDP-10 systems,
VAX 9000 design, other VAX systems, and other software and
programming languages. Lastly, this sub-subseries contains
microfiche of TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 program listings and product
development records relating to Project Jupiter and KC10 systems.
This sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
102708299
AP10 backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-13
102686200
AP41 backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102686217
AP41DS backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102686152
AP41DS backup magnetic tape
1991-02-07
102686199
AP61 backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102708342
AP61 backup magnetic tape
1991-02-07
102684961
AP61DS backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102708361
AP61DS backup magnetic tape
1991-02-14
102686189
AP70 backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102659552
AP70DS backup magnetic tape
1991-02-14
102686193
AP70PS backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102686222
AP7ODS backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102708378
AP7ODS backup magnetic tape
1991-01-21
102737471
Aquarius / VAX 9000 and Medusa / B7
development
1989-1992
102737470
Aquarius / VAX 9000 systems development
1986-1991
102753078
Aquarius, Ampex, and other engineering
drawings
1973-1991
102659564
ARK backup magnetic tape
1991-02-07
102686197
ARK backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102684938
AUGGIE backup magnetic tape
1991-02-01
102659563
AUGGIE backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-14
102684929
AUGGIE backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-17
102737472
Automatic Measurement, Analysis, and Reporting (AMAR)
development
circa 1985
102684967
B3620 backup magnetic tape
1990-08-14
102659550
B3620 backup magnetic tape
1991-02-14
102708337
BLKA backup magnetic tapes
1991-01-17
102708334
BLKA backup magnetic tapes
1990-09-06
102708324
BLKB backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102708297
BLKB backup magnetic tape
1991-01-17
102708330
BLKC backup magnetic tapes
1990-09-06
102708301
BLKC backup magnetic tapes
1991-01-17
102708336
BLKD backup magnetic tape
1991-01-17
102708318
BLKD backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102708319
BLKF backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102708344
BLKF backup magnetic tape
1991-01-17
102708320
BLKG backup magnetic tapes
1990-09-06
102708350
BLKG backup magnetic tapes
1991-01-17
102708321
BLKJ backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102708356
BLKJ backup magnetic tapes
1991-01-17
102708353
BLKK backup magnetic tape
1991-01-16
102715006
BLKK backup magnetic tapes
1988-03-16
102708291
BLKK backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-14
102708292
BLKL backup magnetic tape
1991-01-16
102715368
BLKX backup magnetic tape
1987-11-05
102708302
BLKX backup magnetic tapes
1991-01-16
102708285
BLKX backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-14
102708351
BLKY backup magnetic tapes
1991-01-16
102708284
BLKY backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-14
102708322
BLMK backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102708332
BLUI backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102737473
BOOT program listings
1984
102684969
BOXWK backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-16
102686155
BOXWK backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-14
102737502
Canonical Terminal Support (CTS) functional specification
and thesis proposal
1982
102684962
CDUMP backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102684941
CHIPS backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102659557
CHIPS backup magnetic tape
1991-02-07
102686212
CLOY61 backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102659548
CLOYD backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-13
102684937
CLOYD backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-15
102684939
CLOYD backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-11
102737476
CMOS design guide
1988-05-27
102737477
CMOS-1 design guide and technology files
1985-1986
102737478
CMOS-2 technology file
1988
102737479
CMOS-3 design guides and technology files
1988-1989
102737480
CMOS-4 design guides and technology files
1989-1993
102737481
CMOS-5, CMOS-5L, and CMOS-5LD technology
files
1993-1996
102737482
CMOS-6 and CMOS-6LD technology files
1995-1998
102748692
COBOL-20-V12B program listings
1983
102708281
COMMON backup magnetic tape
1989-08-18
102737500
COMSPL, CLOCK1, PORT, and other program
listings
1975-1982
102708382
CPG backup magnetic tape
1991-02-07
102684963
CPG backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102737495
CTERM, EUNITS, CAN, and other program
listings
1982-1983
102708313
DALES backup magnetic tape
1991-02-07
102684954
DALES backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102773767
Datensicherung and Sysdump magnetic tapes
1987-1988
102773768
Datensicherung, Sysdump, and other magnetic
tapes
1982-1987
102684936
DBMS20 backup magnetic tape
1991-02-14
102684971
DBMS20 backup magnetic tape
1991-01-16
102684972
DBMS20 backup magnetic tape
1990-09-11
102684942
DBMS20 backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-14
102715540
DCUS backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102708304
DCUS backup magnetic tapes
1991-01-17
102708325
DCUS backup magnetic tapes
1990-09-26
102737497
DEC Standard Runoff (DSR), MAPPER, and other program
listings
1975-1983
102773745
DECnet, TOPS-20, MAXCIM, and other magnetic
tapes
1980-1992
102773757
DECnet-10, TOPS-10, and TOPS-20 magnetic
tapes
1985-1990
102773764
DECnet-10/20, BLISS36, FORTRAN-20, and other magnetic
tapes
1983-1993
102748693
DECsystem-10 SIMULA language handbook
1978
102659565
DESERV backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-07
102684953
DESERV backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-16
102686192
DICE backup magnetic tape
1990-08-14
102686138
DICE backup magnetic tape
1991-01-16
102684965
DML60 backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102686188
DMLPS backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102753077
DN87, LP20, H720 and other engineering
drawings
1969-1982
102737474
DN875 program listings
1983
102686165
DNET41 backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102715350
DSKA backup magnetic tape
1992-06-11
102715539
DSKA backup magnetic tape
1993-02-03
102715353
DSKA backup magnetic tape
1992-06-11
102708293
DSKA backup magnetic tapes
1990-10-02
102715161
DSKA backup magnetic tapes
1993-06-30
102708294
DSKA backup magnetic tapes
1990-05-03
102708354
DSKA backup magnetic tapes
1991-01-17
102715159
DSKA incremental backup magnetic tape
1992-09-09
102715001
DSKB backup magnetic tape
1992-06-11
102715541
DSKB backup magnetic tape
1990-12-10
102708383
DSKB backup magnetic tape
1991-01-14
102715163
DSKB backup magnetic tapes
1993-06-30
102715012
DSKB backup magnetic tapes
1993-02-03
102708346
DSKB backup magnetic tapes
1989-11-06
102708329
DSKB backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-13
102708295
DSKB backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-13
102708355
DSKB backup magnetic tapes
1991-01-17
102715002
DSKB incremental backup magnetic tape
1992-09-09
102715005
DSKB incremental backup magnetic tape
1992-11-18
102715004
DSKB incremental backup magnetic tape
1992-12-07
102715003
DSKB incremental backup magnetic tape
1992-08-19
102715160
DSKB incremental backup magnetic tapes
1992-07-21
102715014
DSKB incremental backup magnetic tapes
1993-04-06
102715013
DSKB incremental backup magnetic tapes
1993-03-19
102715158
DSKC backup magnetic tape
1992-06-11
102715157
DSKC backup magnetic tape
1993-02-03
102708352
DSKC backup magnetic tape
1991-01-16
102708287
DSKC backup magnetic tape
1991-01-17
102715165
DSKC backup magnetic tape
1993-06-30
102686196
DSKC backup magnetic tape
1990-08-17
102715359
DSKC backup magnetic tapes
1994-06-10
102708345
DSKC backup magnetic tapes
1989-10-10
102684946
DSKO backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-17
102708289
DSKS backup magnetic tape
1991-01-17
102708326
DSKV backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102708303
DSKV backup magnetic tape
1991-01-17
102686128
DTR20 backup magnetic tape
1991-02-07
102684944
DTR20 backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102708340
EBOX backup magnetic tape
1991-02-12
102686215
EBOX backup magnetic tape
1990-08-16
102686223
ELF backup magnetic tape
1990-08-16
102659558
ELF backup tape
1991-02-12
102737496
EMACS, ICOPY, TECO, and other program
listings
1977-1986
102737484
EV5 CPU chip design guide
1993
102684930
EXODUS backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-17
102659554
EXODUS backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-14
102684940
FBOX backup magnetic tape
1990-08-16
102708339
FBOX backup magnetic tape
1991-02-12
102659572
FLDI70 backup magnetic tape
1991-02-14
102773766
FORTRAN IV, SIGMA 5-7 library, and other magnetic
tapes
1974-1988
102773753
FORTRAN-10 and KL1026 magnetic tapes
1978-1994
102773759
FORTRAN-10, FORTRAN-20, TOPS-10, TOPS-20 and other
magnetic tapes
1986-1990
102708283
FTN backup magnetic tape
1989-10-13
102684951
FTN backup magnetic tape
1990-08-14
102659569
FTN backup magnetic tape
1991-02-14
102684950
FTN backup magnetic tapes
1990-06-19
102659568
GALAXY backup magnetic tapes
1991-01-14
102684933
GALAXY backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-13
102708360
GALAXY backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-11
102684958
GALKS backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102659567
GALKS backup magnetic tape
1991-02-07
102737492
Genealogy of DEC computer family 1960-1990
circa 1990
102708331
GENL backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102737483
GETNOD program listings
1987
102715364
GIDNEY backup magnetic tape
1993-06-29
102708377
GIDNEY backup magnetic tape
1992-09-25
102684934
GIDNEY backup magnetic tape
1990-08-13
102684927
GIDNEY backup magnetic tape
1990-09-10
102708338
GIDNEY backup magnetic tape
1991-02-15
102659570
GIDNEY backup magnetic tape
1991-02-11
102715365
GIDNEY backup magnetic tape
1992-02-05
102715362
GIDNEY incremental backup magnetic tape
1992-08-19
102715363
GIDNEY incremental backup magnetic tape
1993-03-19
102715361
GIDNEY incremental backup magnetic tape
1992-12-07
102686132
GINSU backup magnetic tape
1991-02-07
102686190
GINSU backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102737499
GLXLIB (Galaxy Library), SCRIBE, and other program
listings
1975-1982
102686156
GREEN backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-16
102659553
GREEN backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-14
102659555
GREG backup magnetic tape
1991-01-21
102686206
GREG backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102773788
GWYNED backup magnetic tape
1993-08-21
102737475
High Performance Systems (HPS) Systems Performance
Group
1987-1988
102708373
HPE backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-14
102684952
HPE backup magnetic tapes
1990-09-06
102708341
IBOX backup magnetic tape
1991-02-12
102686214
IBOX backup magnetic tape
1990-08-16
102659561
IDEA backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-14
102684925
IDEA backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-16
102684968
IDEA2 backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-17
102659559
IDEA2 backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-12
102686195
IGUANA backup magnetic tape
1990-08-16
102659556
IGUANA backup magnetic tape
1991-02-14
102708282
IGUANA backup magnetic tapes
1989-09-12
102737485
IMP72 compiler for PDP-10
1973
102708323
IRS backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102686219
JACK backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102686208
JAWS backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102659562
JAWS backup magnetic tape
1991-02-07
102684960
JP70DS backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102684966
JP70PS backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102684955
JUNKM backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102737486
KI10 development
1972
102748691
KL systems procedures
1981
102773713
KL10 and KS10 microcode, TOPS-10, and TOPS-20 magnetic
tapes
1984-1989
102773714
KL10 and KS10 microcode, TOPS-10, and TOPS-20 magnetic
tapes
1979-1986
102737487
KL10, TOPS-10, and PDP-10 development
1978-1983
102773712
KLAD10, KLAD20, and TOPS-20 magnetic tapes
1989-1990
102773726
KLAD10, KLAD20, and TOPS-20 magnetic tapes
1983-1987
102773725
KLAD10, KLAD20, and TOPS-20 magnetic tapes
1982-1989
102773717
KLAD10, KLAD20, and TOPS-20 v4 TSU03 magnetic
tapes
1984-1990
102773716
KLAD10, KLAD20, TOPS-10, and TOPS-20 magnetic
tapes
1984-1989
102773744
KLAD10, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, and FORTRAN-20 magnetic
tapes
1983-1990
102773763
KLAD20 v6.1A-7.0 and TOPS-20 v7.0 TSU03-TSU04 magnetic
tapes
1987-1990
102737488
Laboratory instructions and standards
1976-1985
102737489
Laboratory notebooks
circa 1984
102684948
LINK backup magnetic tape
1990-08-14
102659566
LINK backup magnetic tape
1991-02-14
102686216
LSCAD backup magnetic tape
1990-08-16
102686135
LSCAD backup magnetic tape
1991-02-12
102737490
Manufacturing tests and specifications
1979-1985
102773751
MAXCIM archives, LSBU, and other magnetic
tapes
1989-1992
102773746
MAXCIM databases and reports, LSBU, and other magnetic
tapes
1989-1992
102773750
MAXCIM reports and databases magnetic tapes
1989-1992
102773748
MAXCIM reports, archive, and database, and other magnetic
tapes
1988-1991
102773747
MAXCIM reports, LSBU, PBUSRE, and other magnetic
tapes
1988-1991
102773749
MAXCIM reports, MFG-V53, CAVEAT, and other magnetic
tapes
1988-1991
102773752
MAXCIM reports, PBU, LSBU, KL10 files, and other magnetic
tapes
1984-1991
102684935
MBOX backup magnetic tape
1990-08-16
102686148
MBOX backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-12
102686151
MCA backup magnetic tape
1991-02-12
102686191
MCA backup magnetic tape
1990-08-17
102686225
MISKIN backup magnetic tape
1990-08-17
102708362
MISKIN backup magnetic tape
1991-02-12
102708305
MKT backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-14
102686160
MKT backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-17
102686227
MODRED backup magnetic tape
1990-08-17
102708307
MODRED backup magnetic tape
1991-02-15
102684932
MOLD backup magnetic tape
1990-08-17
102708306
MOLD backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-14
102708314
MONCRS backup magnetic tape
1991-02-14
102708311
MOOSE backup magnetic tape
1991-01-17
102686202
MOOSE backup magnetic tape
1990-08-17
102708386
MORDOR backup magnetic tape
1991-01-08
102659543
MORDOR backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-14
102708367
MORDOR backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-14
102708387
MORDOR backup magnetic tapes
1991-01-10
102686201
MRAUG backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102686194
MRCHIP backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102708315
MRCHIP backup magnetic tape
1991-02-07
102686147
MRDALE backup magnetic tape
1991-02-07
102684964
MRDALE backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102659546
NAP backup magnetic tape
1990-06-08
102708308
NAP backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-11
102659544
NAP backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-13
102708375
NAP backup magnetic tapes
1991-01-14
102686130
NET backup magnetic tape
1991-02-07
102686203
NET backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102686133
NETPKG backup magnetic tape
1991-02-07
102686162
NETPKG backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102686169
NETU backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102708370
NETU backup magnetic tape
1991-02-07
102737493
Network planning concepts and problem-solving
tools
circa 1985
102686170
OLDCLO backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102684926
OPR backup magnetic tape
1990-08-14
102708348
OPR backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-15
102686228
PABST backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102737491
Parser program listings
1981-1983
102684943
PASCAL backup magnetic tape
1990-08-17
102686141
PB backup magnetic tape
1991-02-12
102686226
PB backup tape magnetic tape
1990-08-21
102737558
PDP-10 replacement schematics
circa 1968
102753044
PDP-11, LP20, TA78, TU78, and other engineering
drawings
1975-1988
102753075
PDP-11, T11 DECtape, RP04/05/06, and other engineering
drawings
1970-1977
102753076
PDP-11/40 and PDP-10 KS10 and KA10 engineering
drawings
1970-1978
102708379
PERF backup magnetic tape
1991-02-07
102684956
PERF* backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102708290
PIT backup magnetic tape
1990-08-13
102737501
POSEIDON software specifications
1983
102737531
Project Jupiter, KC10, and other product development
microfiche
circa 1978-1987
102708335
PUBLIC backup magnetic tapes
1993-02-05
102708359
PUBLIC backup magnetic tapes
1992-09-25
102659547
PUBLIC backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-13
102708363
PUBLIC backup magnetic tapes
1991-01-14
102708358
PUBLIC backup magnetic tapes
1993-01-29
102708366
PUBLIC backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-11
102715544
RAND2A backup tape 23-Jul-91
1991-02-14
102773795
RANDOM backup magnetic tape
1991-07-23
102773794
RANDOM backup magnetic tape
1991-07-23
102708364
RANDOM backup magnetic tape
1991-07-23
102708365
RANDOM backup magnetic tape
1991-07-23
102686164
RANDOM backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-13
102708357
RANDOM backup magnetic tapes
1993-02-05
102708380
RANDOM backup magnetic tapes
1993-06-29
102708381
RANDOM backup magnetic tapes
1992-09-25
102708312
RANDOM backup magnetic tapes
1991-01-14
102659574
REL41A backup magnetic tape
1991-02-14
102659573
REL41A backup magnetic tape
1991-01-07
102708385
REL7 backup magnetic tape
1991-01-08
102708384
REL7 backup magnetic tape
1991-01-16
102686163
REL7 backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-14
102708296
RENG backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-14
102708286
RENG backup magnetic tapes
1991-01-16
102684928
RIP backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-13
102708372
RIP backup magnetic tapes
1991-01-14
102659571
RIP backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-11
102708347
RIP20 backup magnetic tape
1991-02-12
102684957
RIP20 backup magnetic tape
1990-08-17
102686221
ROCKET backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102708369
ROCKET backup magnetic tape
1991-01-21
102708368
RONCO backup magnetic tape
1991-01-16
102684959
RONCO backup magnetic tape
1990-08-13
102773765
RR1091, system 1095, and TOPS-20 CONAN crash tapes, and
other magnetic tapes
1990-1999
102686167
RSU backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102686166
RSU2 backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102715543
RSX20F backup magnetic tape
1991-02-14
102686205
SA06 backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102708317
SA26 backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102686139
SAGE backup magnetic tape
1991-02-12
102684945
SAGE backup magnetic tape
1990-08-17
102737503
SCO semiconductor packaging technology file and design
guide
1994-04-29
102708371
SCORCH backup magnetic tape
1991-01-16
102686171
SCORCH backup magnetic tape
1990-08-14
102737494
SETCLK, EBOX Microcode, KDB50-1, and other program
listings
1983-1991
102708300
SIRS backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-14
102708288
SIRS backup magnetic tapes
1991-01-16
102708298
SIRS backup magnetic tapes
1990-10-29
102686154
SLICE backup magnetic tape
1991-02-15
102659549
SLICE backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-14
102708374
SNARK backup magnetic tapes
1991-01-14
102708388
SNARK backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-11
102686213
SNARK backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-13
102715366
SNARK6A backup magnetic tape
1991-07-25
102737504
Software catalogs and libraries
1980-1984
102686159
SQUIRL backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102708310
SQUIRL backup magnetic tape
1991-01-16
102686158
SQUIRL backup magnetic tape
1990-07-26
102686157
SQUIRL backup magnetic tape
1990-03-09
102686134
SUDCOM backup magnetic tape
1991-02-12
102686224
SUDCOM backup magnetic tape
1990-08-16
102737505
Symmetrical Multi-Processing (SMP) support
notebook
1982-1983
102708327
SYSTEM backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-13
102715347
SYSTEM backup magnetic tapes
1991-03-16
102686168
T22 backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102748694
Table-lookup algorithm for software computation of cyclic
redundancy check (CRC)
1974
102686161
TEST: (PI:) backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102737506
Testing and performance reports
1971; 1983; 1991
102686207
THEP backup magnetic tape
1990-08-13
102708349
THEP backup magnetic tape
1991-01-16
102773734
TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 autopatch and other magnetic
tapes
1983-1987
102773739
TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 customer support, cusp, autopatch,
and other magnetic tapes
1984-1989
102773760
TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 documentation, FORTRAN-10, and other
magnetic tapes
1986-1990
102773710
TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 KS10 TSU and other magnetic
tapes
1984-1990
102773689
TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 magnetic tapes
1981-1988
102773697
TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 magnetic tapes
1979-1988
102773704
TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 magnetic tapes
1978-1987
102773728
TOPS-10 customer supported, DECnet-20, and other magnetic
tapes
1980-1990
102773729
TOPS-10 KS10 TSU, 7.04 TSU, and games magnetic
tapes
1983-1990
102773691
TOPS-10 magnetic tapes
1978-1988
102773690
TOPS-10 magnetic tapes
1980-1985
102737533
TOPS-10 program listings microfiche
circa 1979
102773711
TOPS-10 v7.01 and v7.04 and other magnetic
tapes
1982-1989
102773705
TOPS-10 v7.01-7.04 autopatch and customer supported
magnetic tapes
1979-1988
102773703
TOPS-10 v7.01-7.04 magnetic tapes
1982-1988
102773708
TOPS-10 v7.01-7.04 magnetic tapes
1980-1988
102773735
TOPS-10 v7.02-7.03A and TOPS-20 v5.1-7.0 autopatch
magnetic tapes
1983-1989
102773706
TOPS-10 v7.02-7.04 and TOPS-20 v4-7 magnetic
tapes
1978-1988
102773688
TOPS-10 v7.02-7.04 autopatch magnetic tapes
1985-1988
102773709
TOPS-10 v7.03 and TOPS-20 magnetic tapes
1983-1987
102773701
TOPS-10 v7.03-7.04 and TOPS-20 magnetic tapes
1983-1988
102773758
TOPS-10 v7.03-7.04 and TOPS-20 TSU01 and TSU02 magnetic
tapes
1986; 1990
102773702
TOPS-10 v7.03-7.04 magnetic tapes
1985-1988
102773736
TOPS-10 v7.04 and TOPS-20 v4.1-6.1 autopatch and other
magnetic tapes
1984-1989
102773687
TOPS-10 v7.04 autopatch magnetic tapes
1988-1989
102773761
TOPS-10 v7.04 TSU01, TSU02, TSU04, and KS bootable
magnetic tapes
1989-1990
102773727
TOPS-10, DECnet-10, TOPS-20, VMS, and other magnetic
tapes
1981-1988
102773721
TOPS-10, KL10 microcode, TOPS-20, and other magnetic
tapes
1981-1990
102773722
TOPS-10, KLAD10, and KLAD20 magnetic tapes
1979-1987
102773699
TOPS-10, TOPS-20, and other magnetic tapes
1978-1987
102773730
TOPS-10, TOPS-20, and other magnetic tapes
1983-1990
102773720
TOPS-10, TOPS-20, Conan KS10, and KLWRP magnetic
tapes
1988-1989
102773693
TOPS-10, TOPS-20, DECnet, and other magnetic
tapes
1981-1988
102773707
TOPS-10, TOPS-20, DECnet, BLISS-36, and other magnetic
tapes
1981-1988
102773733
TOPS-10, TOPS-20, DECnet, DECserver, and other magnetic
tapes
1982-1988
102773724
TOPS-10, TOPS-20, RSX-20F, KLAD10, and KLAD20 magnetic
tapes
1983-1988
102773718
TOPS-10, TOPS-20, TSU11L, TSU21L, and TSU31L magnetic
tapes
1988-1991
102773719
TOPS-10, TSU11L, TSU21L, TSU31L, and TSU41L magnetic
tapes
1982; 1991
102773723
TOPS-10/20 RSX-20F, UETP, KLAD, and other magnetic
tapes
1989-1988
102773740
TOPS-20 autopatch and cusp update magnetic
tapes
1985-1990
102773737
TOPS-20 autopatch and TOPS-10 distribution and TSU02
magnetic tapes
1981-1989
102773732
TOPS-20 monitor source, BLISS-36, and Datatrieve-20
magnetic tapes
1984-1989
102737534
TOPS-20 program listings microfiche
circa 1976
102773678
TOPS-20 v2 and v4 magnetic tapes
1979-1981
102773680
TOPS-20 v2-3 and v7.0 magnetic tapes
1977-1978; 1988
102773679
TOPS-20 v3-4 magnetic tapes
1979-1981
102773684
TOPS-20 v4 and FORTRAN-20 magnetic tapes
1981-1989
102773741
TOPS-20 v4.1 and v7.0 autopatch magnetic
tapes
1984-1989
102773682
TOPS-20 v4.1 and v7.0 magnetic tapes
1988; 1990
102773683
TOPS-20 v4.1, KS10, and other magnetic tapes
1975-1989
102773742
TOPS-20 v4.1-6.1 autopatch, FORTRAN-20, and other
magnetic tapes
1981-1988
102773738
TOPS-20 v4.1-7.0 autopatch and other magnetic
tapes
1987-1989
102773685
TOPS-20 v4-6 magnetic tapes
1982-1988
102773698
TOPS-20 v4-6 magnetic tapes
1983-1987
102773700
TOPS-20 v4-7 and other magnetic tapes
1978-1987
102773686
TOPS-20 v4-7 magnetic tapes
1983-1988
102773755
TOPS-20 v7.0 autopatch, KL-B updates, TSU03, and other
magnetic tapes
1985-1992
102773681
TOPS-20 v7.0 magnetic tapes
1988-1990
102773731
TOPS-20, ALGOL-20, DEC-20, and other magnetic
tapes
1979-1987
102773695
TOPS-20, COBOL-20, and other magnetic tapes
1982-1988
102773696
TOPS-20, DBMS-20, and other magnetic tapes
1980-1988
102773762
TOPS-20, RR1091 full save, and system 195 crash magnetic
tapes
1984-1991
102773715
TOPS-20, TOPS-10, DECnet, ALGOL-20, and other magnetic
tapes
1978-1985
102773694
TOPS-20, TRAFFIC-20, and other magnetic tapes
1980-1987
102737498
TSC PLT (PLOT), video game program listings, DEASC
(DECsystem-10 ALGOL-60), and other program listings
1975-1984
102686129
TSU04 backup magnetic tape
1991-02-05
102686218
TSUKS backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102715542
TSUKS backup magnetic tape
1991-02-07
102737507
TU70 tape drive notes and manuals
1975-1977
102737508
TX01 tape controller, SPAR-10, and 3800-III tape control
unit documentation
1973-1975
102686220
UCD36 backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102686146
UCD36 backup magnetic tape
1991-02-07
102773833
Unlabeled magnetic tape reel
undated
102708316
USER backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-13
102686204
V40DN backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102686149
V40DN backup magnetic tape
1991-02-17
102773769
VAX 9000 design database backup ARCH01/02
undated
102773812
VAX 9000 design database backup ARCH03/04
undated
102773813
VAX 9000 design database backup ARCH05/06
undated
102773814
VAX 9000 design database backup ARCH07/08
undated
102773815
VAX 9000 design database backup ARCH09/10
undated
102773816
VAX 9000 design database backup ARCH11/12
undated
102773817
VAX 9000 design database backup ARCH13/14
undated
102773818
VAX 9000 design database backup ARCH15/16
undated
102773819
VAX 9000 design database backup ARCH17/18
undated
102773820
VAX 9000 design database backup ARCH19/20
undated
102773821
VAX 9000 design database backup ARCH21/22
undated
102773822
VAX 9000 design database backup ARCH23/24
undated
102773823
VAX 9000 design database backup ARCH25/26
undated
102773824
VAX 9000 design database backup ARCH27
undated
102773829
VAX 9000 design database backups
undated
102773831
VAX 9000 design database backups
undated
102773828
VAX 9000 design database backups
undated
102773825
VAX 9000 design database backups
undated
102773830
VAX 9000 design database backups
undated
102773826
VAX 9000 design database backups
undated
102773827
VAX 9000 design database PYN THAI HPSCAD
backups
1991-03-13
102737509
VAX/VMS DEMFA
1989-1993
102773754
VAX/VMS tools, TOPS-20 tools, Quarry systems, and other
magnetic tapes
1985-1994
102684931
VENCP1 backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-16
102686144
VENCP1 backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-12
102659541
VENEG1 backup magnetic tape
1990-08-16
102686142
VENEG1 backup magnetic tape
1991-02-12
102659542
VENEG2 backup magnetic tape
1990-08-17
102686140
VENEG2 backup magnetic tape
1991-02-12
102686150
VENFG1 backup magnetic tape
1991-02-12
102686209
VENFG1 backup magnetic tape
1990-08-16
102686143
VENFG2 backup magnetic tape
1991-02-12
102686211
VENFG2 backup magnetic tape
1990-08-17
102659610
VENIG1 backup magnetic tape
1990-08-16
102686136
VENIG1 backup magnetic tape
1991-02-12
102686131
VENIG2 backup magnetic tape
1991-02-12
102684947
VENIG2 backup magnetic tape
1990-08-17
102684949
VENMG1 backup magnetic tape
1990-08-16
102686137
VENMG1 backup magnetic tape
1991-02-12
102686210
VENMG2 backup magnetic tape
1990-08-17
102686145
VENMG2 backup magnetic tape
1991-02-12
102708389
WHITE backup magnetic tape
1991-01-16
102708390
WHITE backup magnetic tape
1991-01-08
102708309
WHITE backup magnetic tape
1991-02-14
102659551
WHITE backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-14
102773756
WORK 1A-4B, DECnet-10, and TOPS-20 magnetic
tapes
1986-1991
102773796
WORK backup magnetic tape
1991-07-23
102708328
WORK backup magnetic tape
1990-08-13
102659545
WORK backup magnetic tapes
1990-08-13
102659575
WORK backup magnetic tapes
1991-02-11
102686153
WORK backup magnetic tapes
1991-01-14
102708343
WORK backup magnetic tapes
1993-02-05
102708376
WORK backup magnetic tapes
1993-06-29
102708333
WSM backup magnetic tape
1990-09-06
102737557
XFA DEMFA schematics and design drawings
1990-1991
102773832
XKL TOAD-1 TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 backups
1997
102773797
XUSERS magnetic tape
1987-02-17
DECUS records, Sub-subseries 2.2.3,
1971-1999
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries contains records published by DECUS, which Litt
collected as a member of DECUS and as a contributor to the DECUS
Program Library. Included in this sub-subseries is a near-complete
run of the DECUS periodical titled Copy-N-Mail, printed from 1973 to
1980. Most of this periodical's editions focus on DECsystem-10 and
DECsystem-20 models of the PDP-10. The final issue of Copy-N-Mail
identifies John Simon as the editor. Other DECUS periodicals in this
sub-subseries—with much fewer editions—include DECUSCOPE, DECUS
magazine, Moby Munger (the official organ of DECUS' TECO Special
Interest Group), DECUS Update, and DECUS Journal. Another large
portion of this sub-subseries comprises DECUS Program Library
catalogs and software abstracts, along with forms and correspondence
relating to Litt's borrowing and submitting programs to the library.
DECUS Program Library records in this sub-subseries include both
text and microfiche. Lastly, a DECUS membership guide is included
with this sub-subseries. These DECUS records are arranged
alphabetically by folder title.
102737510
Annual report
1991
102737511
Conference and symposium material
1979; 1995-1999
102737512
Copy-N-Mail
1973-1980
102737514
DECUS membership records
1982-1984
102737515
DECUS Program Library and software catlog updates, forms,
and correspondence
1974-1982; 1995
102737513
DECUS Program Library catalogs and software
abstracts
1971-1992
102737532
DECUS Program Library microfiche
1978-1982
102737516
DECUSCOPE, DECUS Magazine, Moby Munger, and other DECUS
periodicals
1979-1997
102737517
VAX 9000 performance review
1990
Promotional and sales material, Sub-subseries 2.2.4,
1971-2001
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries consists of Litt's collected promotional material,
press kits, sales and marketing guides, and technical summaries.
Most of the material in this sub-subseries was published by DEC,
though there are publications from Compaq and Hewlett-Packard and
promotional material regarding Intel's DEC-related products—all
published after DEC's mergers and acquisitions with these companies.
There is also a small amount of material published by National
Information Systems (NIS) and Tektronix. The majority of the
material published by DEC in this sub-subseries promotes
DECsystem-10, DECsystem-20, VAX 9000 systems, and products developed
by DEC's Large Computer Group (LCG). Some of this material appears
in the form of technical summaries. Also see “Sub-subseries 2.2.7,
Manuals” for technical summaries that were previously filed with
related manuals and kept in that arrangement. Of interest in this
sub-subseries are promotional booklets relating to DEC's early
history and achievements, one of which, titled Digital's Mill:
1847-1977 (1985), covers overlaps between DEC's history and the
history of Maynard, Massachusetts. Lastly, this sub-subseries
contains material used by DEC sales staff to market and sell
products. This sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder
title.
102737518
1991 annual report
1991
102737519
Compaq, Intel, and Hewlett-Packard promotional
material
1997-2001
102737520
Customer support guides, presentations, and holiday
cards
1982; 1991; 1997
102737527
DECsystem-10 and DECsystem-20 technical
summaries
1971-1981
102737521
Large Computer Group promotional material
1982-1983
102737522
National Information Systems (NIS) and Tektronix
promotional material
circa 1983
102749823
PDP-10 promotional posters
1984
102737523
Press kits
1981-1983
102737524
Printer, storage, ethernet, PDP-10, and other systems
promotional material
1979-1984; 1992
102737525
Retrospective achievement booklets
1984-1985; 1992
102737526
Sales and marketing guides
1972; 1977-1982; 1995-1996
102737528
VAX 9000 and other VAX systems promotional
material
1982-1992
KL10 records, Sub-subseries 2.2.5,
1971-1989
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries comprises a separate, but related donation
(X3149.2005) made by Tim Litt and Hewlett-Packard a year after the
larger DEC collection donated by Hewlett-Packard in 2004
(X2675.2004). Most of the material in this sub-subseries documents
KL10-based computing systems. The KL10—also marketed as
DECsystem-10—was one model of the PDP-10 mainframe computer family.
One other PDP-10 model that is well-documented in this sub-subseries
is the KS10. Types of material in this sub-subseries include program
listings, manuals, engineering drawings, and microfiche. Also
included in this sub-subseries are microfiche library manuals that
instruct DEC employees on using the standards and policies of DEC
microfiche libraries, particularly libraries relating to large
computer hardware documentation like the majority of microfiche in
this sub-subseries. This sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically by
folder title.
102737551
2102 microfiche
1975-1982
102753041
DC20F, MF20, and DN20 field service
documentation
1975-1981
102737540
DECsystem-10 and DECsystem-20 manuals
1978; 1982
102737541
DECsystem-10 promotional material
1974
102737542
DECsystem-1080/1090 system description
1977
102737554
Diagnostic listings microfiche
1976-1985
102748535
DX20-V100 magnetic tape subsystem micro-code program
listings
1982
102737555
Hardware documentation microfiche
1975-1989
102737543
KL10 maintenance guide
1981
102737544
KL10 microcode for TOPS-10 and TOPS-20
1984
102737545
KL10 specifications, errors, and instruction
sets
1974-1975
102753042
KL10-PV, MB20, and RH20 field service
documentation
1974-1977
102753039
KL10-R, KL10-PW, and RP04/05/06 field service
documentation
1976-1984
102753040
KS10 field service documentation
1977-1980
102737546
KS10 manuals
1978-1979
102737547
KS10 program listings
1979-1986
102737548
MBox storage controller unit description
1976
102753043
MG10, RH20, and MF20 field service
documentation
1975-1980
102737556
Microfiche library manuals
1975-1979; 1987
102737553
Paul Marr collection of Large Computer Group (LCG)
microfiche
1971-1988
102737549
RH10 and RH20 massbus controller development
circa 1976
102737552
System 4097 microfiche
1976-1985
102748556
TOPS-10 monitor internals support
1979
102737550
TU45A magnetic tape subsystem maintenance
manual
1976
TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 software performance reports, Sub-subseries 2.2.6,
1983-1990
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries contains software performance reports for various
programs within the TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 operating systems. TOPS-10
and TOPS-20 were both DEC operating systems used on PDP-10
computers. Most of these reports address errors and possible
diagnoses for specific software programs written for TOPS-10 and/or
TOPS-20. The reports reflect feedback and service to clients of
various organizations using TOPS-10 or TOPS-20 systems, as well as
other DEC employees using these systems. Specific programs with
significant amounts of documentation in this sub-subseries include
instances of COBOL-74 and FORTRAN, with reports for these programs
under both TOPS-10 and TOPS-20. A small number of the software
performance reports address problems with software-related textual
documents. In these cases, the reports are titled after the document
title, such as a manual title or an edition of the DEC periodical,
Software Dispatch. For the majority of this sub-subseries, folder
titles are named for each letter of the alphabet, and within the
folders, the reports are arranged alphabetically by each program
name. The only exception to this system is with the folders that
were previously arranged consecutively by versions of the TOPS-10
and TOPS-20 operating systems. This arrangement was preserved for
those cases. This sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder
title.
102737559
A program names
1984-1989
102737560
B program names
1984-1990
102737561
C program names
1984-1990
102737562
D program names
1984-1989
102737563
E program names
1984-1988
102737564
F program names
1984-1989
102737565
G and H program names
1984-1989
102737566
I and K program names
1984-1989
102737567
L program names
1983-1989
102737568
M program names
1983-1988
102737569
N and O program names
1983-1989
102737570
P program names
1984-1988
102737571
Q and R program names
1983-1990
102737572
S program names
1984-1989
102737573
T program names
1984-1990
102737574
TOPS-10 software performance reports
1983-1990
102737575
TOPS-20 software performance reports
1984-1990
102737576
U, W, and X program names
1983-1990
Manuals, Sub-subseries 2.2.7,
1965-1998
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries comprises Litt's collection of manuals, published
by DEC and other institutions. The majority of these manuals are
published by DEC, but other publishers include American Telephone
& Telegraph Company (AT&T), Control Data Corporation (CDC),
Hewlett-Packard, Tektronix, Xerox Corporation, IBM, and Intel. Many
of the manuals in this sub-subseries relate to the PDP-10 product
line, including manuals for DECsystem-10, DECsystem-20, TOPS-10,
TOPS-20, KL10, and KS10. Also included is a significant amount of
material for PDP-11 and VAX-based systems. Programming languages are
also well-documented in this sub-subseries, including BLISS. Aside
from manuals, this sub-subseries contains smaller amounts of
educational material, training guides, maintenance manuals, sales
guides, and technical summaries. These other types of material were
previously filed with related manuals so this arrangement was
preserved. For more of Litt's educational material, sales guides,
and technical summaries, see “Sub-subseries 2.2.9, Course material”
and “Sub-subseries 2.2.4, Promotional and sales material.” Many of
the manuals in this sub-subseries are preliminary and/or incomplete
drafts of manuals for internal distribution and development. Some of
these partial manuals were compiled into “notebooks” (e.g., “TOPS-10
Software Notebooks”), which contained related user documentation
from different manuals, collected together into a single notebook
for a specific use. This sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically by
folder title.
102749014
Bell System technical reference manuals
1967-1978
102749023
BLISS, DECnet, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, and other
manuals
1965-1986
102749013
DBMS-20, DECsystem-10, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, and other
manuals
1974-1989
102748567
DEC-10, DEC peripheral, Systems Concepts, and other
manuals
1968-1982
102748565
DECsystem-10, WPS, GIGI, ALL-IN-1, and other
manuals
1972-1990
102748560
Educational material on hardware/software products and
other manuals
1976-1998
102750644
Handbooks, maintenance guides and other
manuals
1966-1984; 1994
102749022
KL10, KS10, and other manuals
1979-1985
102748566
PDP-10, TOPS-10, and DECsystem-10 manuals
1986-1989
102737607
PDP-11, DECsystem-10, DECsystem-20 and other
manuals
1975-1985
102749012
PDP-11, RSX-11, SIM11, and other manuals
1976-1982
102750643
PDP-11, VAX and other manuals
1966-1982
102750642
PDP-11, VAX and other manuals
1969-1984
102750641
PDP-11, VAX and other manuals
1971-1982
102749020
PDP-11, VAX, VAXcluster, and other manuals and training
guides
1979-1982
102749019
PDP-11, VAX-11, CAE 2000, and other manuals and
educational materials
1979-1990
102749021
PDP-11, VAX-11/780, and other manuals
1975-1984
102749015
PDP-15, VAX, TOPS-10, TOPS-20, and other
manuals
1973-1994
102748564
RSX-11, peripheral, and other manuals
1974-1984
102749018
TOPS-10, DEC 10/20, DECsystem-10, PDP-10, PDP-11, VAX-11,
and other manuals
1965-1994
102749024
TOPS-10, TOPS-20, DECsystem-10, and other
manuals
1972-1988
102748568
TOPS-10/TOPS-20 and other manuals
1968-1988
102749011
VAXELN and other manuals
1989-1997
102748561
VAXELN, DEC hardware and software, and other
manuals
1974-1989
Periodicals, Sub-subseries 2.2.8,
Bulk, 1980-1998
1973-2002
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries consists of Litt's collected newsletters,
magazines, catalogs, and price lists published periodically. Most of
this material was published by DEC, but there is a small amount of
periodicals published by other organizations. Most of the catalogs,
price lists, and “product summaries” of this sub-subseries come from
DEC's Large Computer Group (LCG). LCG also published its own
magazines and newsletters, including the Large Computer Group
Buy-Line and Large Systems News, also both in this sub-subseries.
Another magazine with a significant amount of editions in this
sub-subseries is Forefront, which was published by DEC and then by
Compaq after the latter acquired DEC in 1998. Lastly, this
sub-subseries contains microfiche collections of Software Dispatch,
a periodical published by DEC's Software Maintenance Service and
microfiche of three DEC newsletters: Small Buffer, Large Buffer, and
The Buffer. This sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder
title.
102737578
DEC employee newsletters
1985-1995
102737579
DECsystem-10 price lists
1973-1976
102737536
DECsystem-10 software dispatch microfiche
1977-1991
102737580
DECsystem-20 price lists
1976-1978
102737537
DECsystem-20 software dispatch microfiche
1980-1989
102737581
DECWORLD
1985-1993
102737582
Digital review
1990-1991
102737583
Digital today
1990-1998
102737584
Forefront
1992-1998
102737585
Highlights
1984
102737586
Inform
1998-2001
102737587
InterOffice, Digital Leader, and Enterprise
Journal
1986-1987; 1998
102737588
Large computer group buy-line
1981-1984
102737589
Large computer group product summary
1979-1986
102737591
Large systems news
1978-1986
102749607
Large systems news
1985-1986
102737590
Large systems price list
1977; 1980-1983
102737592
LCG applications update
1982-1983
102737593
LSI focus
1986-1987
102737594
Non-DEC periodicals
1994-2002
102737595
Sales update, options summary, and other catalogs and
price lists
1980-1989; 1997
102737535
Small buffer, large buffer, and the buffer
microfiche
1981-1988
102737596
WRL prospectus 87-88
1987-11-23
Course material, Sub-subseries 2.2.9,
1974-1986
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries contains Litt's collection of course outlines,
student handouts, and seminar notes from his time at DEC. Most of
this course material was published by DEC's Educational Services
department, though material from other DEC departments and other
institutions are also included. Most of the records in this
sub-subseries relate to the TOPS-10 and TOPS-20 operating systems,
which were developed for DECsystem-10 and DECsystem-20 computers,
all of which fell under the PDP-10 family of mainframe computers.
Other systems with educational documentation in this sub-subseries
include the ANF-10 network protocol, a version of a program called
Galaxy 4.1, UNIX, VMS 5.1, and the BLISS programming language. Also
see “Sub-subseries 2.2.7, Manuals” for more instructional guides
from DEC's Educational Services department, but without accompanying
course outlines, notes, and/or student handouts. This sub-subseries
is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
102737597
ANF-10 network protocol
1975; 1980-1983
102737598
BLISS programming language course material
1978
102737599
Communications and networks course outline and
notes
1979-1981
102737600
DECsystem-10 administrator and monitor
courses
1974-1978
102737602
Galaxy 4.1, UNIX, and VMS 5.1 course and seminar
material
1980-1986
102737603
Large Computer Group (LCG) support team seminar
material
1982-1983
102737601
Pre course material for DECsystem-20 sales training
seminar : introduction to Ethernet
circa 1982
102737604
TOPS-10 networks and monitor internals course
material
1978-1986
102737605
TOPS-10 version 7.01 student handouts
1980
102737606
TOPS-20 monitor internals course material
1980
Walter Metz papers, Subseries 2.3,
Bulk, 1980-1991
1962-1991
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries contains Walter C. Metz's papers from his engineering work
in DEC's Advanced Semiconductor Development (ASD) Group. Metz's
engineering titles at DEC included Principal engineer for semiconductor
operations and also epitaxial/chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process
engineer. The majority of the records in this series relate to Metz's
work with epitaxial (epi) growth research in complementary metal oxide
semiconductor (CMOS) development. Metz, collaborating with Gregory J.
Grula, invented at least two methods under this area of research and
development titled "Method for Forming Trench Isolated Regions with
Sidewall Doping" and "Method of Fabricating Trench Isolated Transistors
with Sidewall Doping." Included in this series are correspondence,
laboratory results and analyses, Metz's notebooks, patents,
specifications, and articles related to this work in semiconductor
development. Metz was also involved in a variety of partnerships between
DEC and research entities, including North Carolina State University's
(NCSU) Engineering Research Center (ERC); the SEMATECH Center of
Excellence (SCOE) on Advanced Single Wafer Processing; a campus-based
engineering center at the University of Karlsruhe, Germany; and the
Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC). This subseries is arranged
alphabetically by folder title.
102737275
Advanced Semiconductor Development (ASD) Group
1987-1990
102737310
Advantage Production Technology silicon surfaces
cleaning
1987-1991
102737305
AMS 2000/2001 Silox reactors
1980-1986
102737312
Applied Materials 7700 and 7800 Reactor systems
1988-1990
102737308
Bipolar complementary metal oxide semiconductors (Bi
CMOS)
1984-1988
102737304
Bipolar low power Schottky layout design rules, MOS-TIPI, and
Mosaic processes
1981
102737309
Course notes and material
circa 1985
102737295
Epitaxial (epi) growth research in complementary metal oxide
semiconductor (CMOS) development
1962-1969; 1976-1984; 1991
102737306
EV5/CMOS5 and Genus G-1500 MeV Implanter
equipment
1988-1990
102737313
Intellectual property research
1986; 1990
102737297
Laboratory notebooks
1984-1987
102737307
Laboratory testing and analyses results
1979-1990
102737296
Manufacturing and purchase specifications for semiconductor
development
1986-1988
102737300
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
projects
1989-1990
102737291
Meetings notebooks
1981-1989
102737293
North Carolina State University (NCSU) Engineering Research
Center (ERC)
1989-1991
102737303
Oxygen levels in silicon material, gettering, surface
analysis, C-V profile, spreading resistance
1980-1983
102737314
Résumé by Walter C. Metz
circa 1980
102737301
SEMATECH
1988-1991
102737299
Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International
(SEMI)
1987-1991
102737292
Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)
1988-1991
102737302
Semiconductor wafers
1976-1986
102737311
Silicon technology research
1968; 1978; 1989-1990
102737294
Trench isolation research and inventions in semiconductor
development
1983-1990
102737298
University involvement and funding
1987
Chip Nylander PRISM and MIPS records, Subseries 2.4,
1976-1990
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries is primarily made up of material related to the
development of DEC's PRISM and MIPS reduced instruction set computing
(RISC) processor architectures, collected and created by Charles (Chip)
G. Nylander from 1976 to 1990. Nylander was a senior consulting engineer
and the technical director for DEC's Software Development Technologies
group, heading many software and systems architecture development
projects. The bulk of material in this subseries is related to PRISM.
Officially started in 1985, the PRISM project grew from other RISC
projects at DEC, but was canceled by DEC management in 1988 as it neared
completion. The next largest portion of this subseries is related to
MIPS, a RISC architecture developed by MIPS Computer Systems and
implemented by DEC with its DECstations following the end of PRISM.
Material for both architectures includes documentation about project
planning, development, languages, and calling standards. A smaller
amount of material in this subseries is related to the early development
of Alpha, which was based on PRISM, ULTRIX, the GEM compiler, and
PRISM's MICA operating system. This subseries is arranged alphabetically
by folder title.
102739890
Alpha development
1986-1990
102739886
Floating point ECO proposal
1978
102739880
GEM compiler development
1984-1989
102739887
HYDRA system overview and specifications
1978
102739909
Long-range and strategic planning
1985-1990
102739879
MICA development
1987-1988
102739891
MicroVAX
1982-1985
102739876
MIPS calling standard development
1987-1989
102739873
MIPS languages
1988-1989
102739877
MIPS non-Software Development Technologies
program
1989
102739878
MIPS PL/I research
1989
102739875
MIPS research and reference material
1984-1989
102739874
MIPS Software Development Technologies program
planning
1988-1990
102739881
PRISM calling standard and condition handling
1985-1988
102739892
PRISM development
1985-1988
102739882
PRISM documentation reviews
1985-1986
102739883
PRISM languages
1985-1988
102739884
PRISM VAX compatibility working group records
1987
102739893
SRM comments and questions
1985
102739885
ULTRIX task force
1984-1987
102739888
VAX-11 structure definition language (SDL)
1981
102739889
X3J1 meeting reports
1976-1988
David Mitton DECnet records, Subseries 2.5,
1977-1990
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries contains material collected and created by DEC consulting
software engineer David Mitton related to the planning and development
of DECnet. Material dates from 1977 to 1990. DECnet, DEC's network
protocol, was introduced in 1974 and made up its Digital Network
Architecture (DNA). The material in this subseries includes records
related to the planning and development of DEC's Personal Computing
Systems Architecture (PCSA), including OS/2, Pathworks, MS-NET, and
NETBIOS emulation; DECnet-DOS; the PCxx personal computer's network
architecture and software; and DECnet for Rainbow computers. Included
are memoranda, presentations, reports, product descriptions and
requirements, sales data, and press. Also included are project
management records that show plans, timelines, procedures, individual
work plans, product resource reports, and meeting notes. This subseries
is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
102739717
DECnet-DOS logbooks
1983-1987
102739715
DECnet-Rainbow
1984-1987
102739716
Ethernet interfaces
1982-1988
102739721
IBM Competetive Strategy Woods Meeting notes and
material
1986
102739722
PCxx Task Force meeting notes and presentations
1984-1985
102739718
Personal Computing Systems Architecture (PCSA)
1983-1990
102748301
Product descriptions and requirements
1985
102739720
Product sales data
1986-1988
102739723
Project management files
1985-1989
102739719
Promotional material and press
1985-1989
102739714
Starlet working design document
1977
102739713
VAX architecture standard
1980
Dick Best papers, Subseries 2.6,
Bulk, 1959-1984
1951-2001
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries consists of material collected by DEC chief engineer
Richard (Dick) L. Best, who began working at DEC in 1959 when he was
hired to work on the PDP-1 design. Material dates from 1951 to 2001,
with the bulk from 1959 to 1984. Best's papers were acquired by the
museum in two separate donations (X2675.2004 and X7042.2014), and this
subseries is arranged into two sub-subseries, one for each donation. The
majority of material in each sub-subseries is focused on specific
aspects of Best's job, but there is overlap on subjects and types of
material in each sub-subseries.
Arrangement
This subseries is arranged into two sub-subseries:
Sub-subseries 2.6.1, Committee and product development records,
1959-1984, bulk 1951-1990
Sub-subseries 2.6.2, Module records, 1959-2001, bulk 1959-1973
Committee and product development records, Sub-subseries 2.6.1,
Bulk, 1959-1984
1951-1990
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries comprises material related to various engineering
committees and the research and development of products and
technologies, plus some administrative material. Material dates from
1951 to 1990, with the bulk from 1959 to 1984. As chief engineer,
Best served on many committees, including the Design Review
Committee, Engineering Committee, Library Committee, and Engineering
Review Board. Material related to these and other committees
includes meeting minutes, notes, product proposals and reviews, and
evaluations of engineers for job title reclassification. The Design
Review Committee and Engineering Committee have the most material.
There is a large amount of records on the research and development
of different products and technologies, such as memory systems,
computer systems, wiring, video terminals, circuits, and modules.
Records on the research and development of modules is one area where
the two sub-subseries overlap. While the focus of sub-subseries
2.6.2 is on modules, this sub-subseries does contain a small amount
of material on the subject. Also included here is a large amount of
promotional material and product specifications from other
companies, plus correspondence between DEC and those companies and
its clients, and reports of trips DEC personnel took to visit other
companies with the purpose of learning more about their products.
There is also material on internal and industry standards; field
service records; manufacturing, sales, and pricing information; and
memos from Ken Olsen from 1959 to 1983 that document the development
of a variety of DEC technologies and the growth of DEC as a company.
This sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
102760957
A-D conversion research and development
1959-1978
102760981
Administrative material
1964-1986
102760966
CAD systems research and development
1980-1981
102760951
CBEMA/SPMC
1973-1979
102760958
Circuit board research and development
1965-1969
102760979
Customer correspondence
1959-1973
102760947
Design Review Committee records
1967-1978
102760944
Engineering Committee meeting minutes and
memoranda
1967-1983
102760971
Engineering Product Library System (EPLS)
1976-1984
102760949
Engineering Review Board records
1969-1982
102760941
Engineering Services Committee meeting
minutes
1969-1970
102760978
Environmental testing
1968; 1981
102760977
External technical reports
1969-1985
102760940
Field service reports and records
1964-1976
102760906
Flip-Chip test specifications
1964-1968
102760960
Gold research and development
1965-1968; 1979
102760983
Information about other companies
circa 1964-1971; 1981
102760954
Integrated circuit research and development
1967-1976
102760965
Jupiter and Venus development
1982
102760948
Library Committee and DEC Corporate Library
records
1971-1983
102760946
LSI Committee records
1971-1985
102749992
Manuals and reference cards
1962-1984
102760970
Manufacturing records
1966-1978
102760956
Memory research and development
1964-1978
102749994
Memos from Ken Olsen
1959-1983
102755943
Microfilm cartridges
1967-1973
102760952
Module research and development
1961-1983
102760933
Other internal engineering newsletters and
periodicals
1967-1987
102760972
Parts
1969-1981
102760950
Patents and trademarks
1963-1974; 1982-1983
102760962
PDP systems development
1964-1972
102760973
PEPR development
1962-1965
102760955
Power supply research and development
1966-1977; 1989-1990
102760980
PREDIC
1984-04-25
102760976
Pricing
1969-1970
102760963
Printer research and development
1967-1969; 1986
102749996
Project plans and development
1966-1989
102760967
Sales notebook
1962-1968
102760969
Small Systems Product Steering Group records
1978-1979
102760942
Standards, policies, and procedures
1962-1984
102760964
Strates research and development
1965-1969
102760945
Surplus Committee records
1967
102760975
Teletypes
1964-1971
102760968
Trip reports
1965-1972
102760939
Underwriters Laboratories (UL) status and
safety-certified products
1974-1978; 1982
102749990
Video terminal development
1971-1983
102749991
Whirlwind project records
1951-1952; 1966
102760959
Wire and cable research and development
1966-1970; 1985
102749998
Works Committee records
1964-1967
Module records, Sub-subseries 2.6.2,
Bulk, 1959-1973
1959-2001
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries is almost entirely made up of material related to
the research and development of modules at DEC. Records date from
1959 to 2001, with the bulk from 1959 to 1973. Best was in charge of
module design at DEC. Just under half of this sub-subseries consists
of schematics for DEC modules, including Flip-Chips, VHF modules,
and the G, H, K, M, and W series. There is also a large number of
module bulletins, module descriptions, module lists, option
designation lists, and option/module lists. Additionally, there are
photographs, standards, specifications, catalogs, price lists, and
sales material related to modules. This sub-subseries does contain
some material not directly related to the research and development
of modules, including a large number of issues of Engineering
Newsletter from 1963 to 1992, a small number of issues of DEC
Engineering Note from 1969 to 1976, material on the development of
the EV7 Alpha microprocessor, and architectural drawings for DEC's
facilities at the Maynard Mill in Maynard, Massachusetts. This
sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
102760905
DEC Engineering Note
1969-1976
102760890
Engineering Newsletter
1963-1992
102760909
Engineering Newsletter index
1972-07-13
102760893
Engineering Newsletter memos
1964; 1975
102760936
Ephemera
undated
102760903
EV7 development
1993-2001
102760900
Flip-Chip module schematics notebooks
1964-1979
102760898
G series modules large schematics
1967-1971
102760895
H series modules large schematics
1971-1977
102760896
K series modules large schematics
1970-1972
102760897
M series modules large schematics
1969-1971
102760902
Mill facility design drawings
circa 1985; 1989
102760907
Module bulletins
1965-1967
102760899
Module descriptions
1959-1969
102760892
Module lists
1970; 1973
102760901
Module schematics notebooks
1959-1970
102760891
Option designation lists
1963-1973
102760908
Option/module lists
1973-1975
102760938
Robinson Nugent short-form catalog
2001
102760935
VHF module development
1962-1963
102760894
W series modules large schematics
1967-1972
Don White papers, Subseries 2.7,
1960-1987
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries is made up of material created and collected by DEC
engineer Don White from 1960 to 1987. White worked at DEC from 1960 to
1989, where he developed PDP-8 logic modules based off of DEC's
Flip-Chip module series, led the team that developed the PDP-8's OMNIBUS
assembly, and was responsible for the design of the PDP-8/L computer.
About half of this series is made up of PDP-8 schematics, including
those for the M-series of integrated circuits, R-series Flip-Chip
modules, and analog memory design. Also included is an R-series terminal
loading chart and memoranda and correspondence related to various DEC
engineering procedures and projects, including the development of the
PDP-8 and its modules. White also collected material related to modules
for the LSI-11 microcomputer. Of particular interest are White's
engineering notebooks from 1960 to 1980 and material related to some of
his patents. This series also includes a set of wiring diagrams for the
Teletype Model 33, which was the teleprinter that came with the PDP-8.
This subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
102750825
Circuits course
1964-1966
102750646
Engineering notebooks
1960-1980
102750648
LSI-II records
1979-1982
102750649
Memoranda and correspondence
1963-1982
102750637
Patents
1972-1987
102750650
PDP-8 schematics
1964-1971
102750645
R-series Flip-Chip modules terminal loading chart
1965
102750647
Teletype Model 33 wiring diagrams
1970
David Morgan microprocessor records, Subseries 2.8,
1984-1999
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries is made up of material collected by David K. Morgan
related to the development of DEC microprocessors from 1984 to 1999,
with the majority of material concentrated on VAX, Alpha, and StrongARM
microprocessors. Morgan was a DEC engineer and engineering project
manager, with several engineering patents under his name. This subseries
includes plans, reports, drawings, and specifications for the VAX
microprocessors CVAX, Rigel, NVAX, and XMX; the Alpha microprocessors
21064 (EV4), EV45, 21164 (EV5), and 21264 (EV6); and the StrongARM
microprocessors SA-110, SA-1100, and SA-1500. Also included are patents
and patent applications by Morgan and the third volume of the DEC
Semiconductor Engineering Group's Chip Portfolio (1988-1989), which
consists of descriptions and color photographs of chips. This subseries
is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
102739862
Alpha microprocessors
1989-1999
102739866
DEC periodicals
1992; 1995
102739869
Dragon video system hardware specification
1985
102739867
Patents
1987-1988
102739870
Presentations
1990; 1995
102739865
Semiconductor Engineering Group chip portfolio
circa 1990
102739871
StrongARM microprocessors
1994-1997
102739868
Tree operations
undated
102739872
VAX microprocessors
1984-1991
Dileep Bhandarkar papers, Subseries 2.9,
1977-1989
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries consists of Dileep P. Bhandarkar's presentation material,
notebooks, and some correspondence related to his work managing DEC
systems and their architectures. The largest portion of this subseries
relates to PRISM architecture (Parallel Reduced Instruction Set
Machine). Other systems and design strategies that are documented in
these records include VAX-11, PDP-11, reduced instruction set computing
(RISC), and large scale integration (LSI). The only job title listed in
these records for Bhandarkar is technical director of Mid Range Systems.
In other DEC documentation Bhandarkar is described as a principal
engineer in the VAX-11/PDP-11 Systems architecture department and as
leading the technical direction and product strategy of Alpha Personal
Systems, Alpha and VAX Servers, and High Performance Computing.
Bhandarkar also worked as Architecture Manager for MicroVAX, Chief
Architect for VAX Vector Processing, Technical Director for Base
Platforms, and co-architect on the PRISM RISC architecture on which
Alpha is based. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder
title.
102739541
Changes to PRISM architecture
1986-11
102739540
General effects of Large Scale Integration (LSI) on the
computer industry
circa 1985
102739542
MITRE presentation on reduced instruction set computing
(RISC)
circa 1989
102739534
Notes on product development, VAX-11 architecture, and PDP-11
architecture
1977-1979
102739533
PRISM architecture
1988-04
Product managers' papers, Series 3,
1966-1997
Series Scope and Content
This series contains the papers of DEC employees who were in charge of
managing a specific product line or “group” within DEC's corporate
structure. In 1964, DEC reorganized into a business unit-oriented structure.
After this restructuring, each business unit had a manager, which DEC
initially titled “product line managers.” Subsequently, product line
managers became “group managers” under DEC nomenclature. Many of the DEC
managers grouped within this series had “product line manager” or “group
manager” in their titles at some point in their careers. Some of the people
grouped under this series did not have these terms in their job titles, but
were generally in charge of managing product development for specific
product lines. Also, many of the collections under this series cover
multiple stages of each person's career. The decisions to group these
subseries under “Project manager personal papers” were based on the work
that the majority of the records in each subseries reflect. DEC's
Alpha-based systems have the most documentation in this series, covering its
early development in the late 1980s to its release in 1992. Most of the
people grouped in this series managed the Alpha product line at different
points in their careers, especially Supnik, Conklin, and Avery. The
earlier-developed VAX architecture and VAX-based systems are also well
represented in this series. The Peter Conklin and Bill Demmer papers in this
series contain early documentation of VAX's beginnings, including systems
migration instructions for DEC's existing PDP-11 customers to migrate to the
VAX-based systems when they were first released.
Arrangement
This series is arranged into eight subseries:
Subseries 3.1, Bob Supnik Alpha papers, 1980-1993
Subseries 3.2, Bill Demmer papers, 1985-1995
Subseries 3.3, Peter Conklin papers, 1966-1995, bulk 1975-1994
Subseries 3.4, Al Avery papers, 1978-1994
Subseries 3.5, Roger Cady papers, 1974-1983
Subseries 3.6, Bev Schultz OpenVMS papers, 1979-1994, bulk 1991-1994
Subseries 3.7, Lou Philippon papers, 1967-1997, bulk 1981-1995
Subseries 3.8, Eli Glazer memoranda, 1978-1983
Bob Supnik Alpha papers, Subseries 3.1,
1980-1993
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries is made up of material collected and created by Robert
(Bob) M. Supnik from 1980 to 1993 that is related to the development of
DEC's Alpha RISC architecture and line of microprocessors, the Rigel and
V-11 microprocessor chip sets for VAX, and the VAX 9000 family of
supercomputers and mainframe computers. Supnik held a number of
positions during his time at DEC, including senior corporate consulting
engineer, engineering program manager for Alpha, technical director for
the Alpha and VAX Systems Group, group manager for microprocessor
development and semiconductor engineering, laboratory manager, vice
president of technology and architecture in the Computer Systems
Division, and vice president of corporate research and advanced
development in the Corporate Strategy and Technology Group. The majority
of material in this subseries is related to the Alpha program that
Supnik led, including quarterly reports, memos, project plans, design
drawings, and presentations that document the development of Alpha from
concept to product from 1989 to 1993. A small portion of the material in
this subseries is related to VAX-9000 and the development of the VAX
microprocessors Rigel and V-11. This subseries is arranged
alphabetically by folder title.
102739746
Alpha development files, 1989-1990
1989-1990
102739751
Alpha development files, 1991
1991
102739752
Alpha development files, 1992
1992
102739753
Alpha development files, 1993
1993
102739745
Alpha Quarterly Review
1990-1993
102739756
Rigel development files
1982-1989
102739755
V-11 (Project Scorpio) development files
1980-1989
102739754
VAX 9000 (Project Aquarius) development files
1984-1991
Bill Demmer papers, Subseries 3.2,
1985-1995
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries consists of material collected and created by William
(Bill) R. Demmer from 1985 to 1995. Originally an engineer who helped
build VAX, Demmer served as the vice president of both the Mid-Range
Systems Business Group and the VAX/VMS Systems and Servers Group, and
was in charge of Alpha product development. The material in this
subseries touches on many facets of the units Demmer helmed and his
responsibilities as vice president. The majority of material is made up
of correspondence to and from Demmer from 1993 to 1995 that is related
to various business and personnel issues, with attached presentations,
reports, articles, and other documents. There is also a large amount of
material related to the planning, development, and licensing of Alpha,
plus records from the Alpha Task Force Demmer created to look at sales
and marketing strategies. Also included are long-range plans for the
Mid-Range Systems Business Group and VAX/VMS Systems and Servers Product
Creation Unit, plus business and development plans for CALYPSO/CVAX and
CALYPSO/RIGEL. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder
title.
102739708
Alpha licensing and trademark
1991-1992
102739706
Alpha planning records
1991-1992
102739709
Alpha Task Force records
1991
102739707
CALPYSO plans
1986-1988
102748169
Correspondence 1993
1993
102739711
Correspondence 1994
1994
102739712
Correspondence 1995
1995
102739704
Emerald Phase 0 plans
1986
102739703
Mid-Range Systems Product Business Unit long-range
plans
1988-1989
102739705
VAX product strategy videotape
1985
102739702
VAX/VMS Systems and Servers Product Creation Unit long-range
plans
1991
Peter Conklin papers, Subseries 3.3,
Bulk, 1975-1994
1966-1995
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries contains records collected and partially created by Peter
F. Conklin during his roles at DEC as Director of Alpha Product
Development, Software Director of the Advanced Systems Group, and,
lastly, Director of Systems Development in the Engineering Excellence
Program Office. A large portion of this subseries covers the early
development and architecture of VAX and VAX-based computers. Included in
the VAX documentation are systems migration instructions for existing
PDP-11 DEC customers to migrate to VAX-based systems, VAX glossaries,
early VAX architecture development, strategic review meeting documents
for EVAX, VAX-11/780 promotional material, and multiple editions of the
VAXnews newsletter. Other DEC products covered in this subseries include
Alpha, DECsystem-10, and OpenVMS. A major theme that appears throughout
this subseries is management strategies – especially strategies that
reflect Conklin's methods in managing Alpha product development at DEC.
Also emphasized in these records are partnerships and collaborations
between DEC and other companies, including Olivetti, Cerner Corporation,
IBM, and Mitsubishi. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder
title.
102737320
Advanced minicomputer designed by team evaluation of
hardware/software tradeoffs
1978
102737342
Alpha development and product strategy
1990-1993
102737337
ASCII and standardized character sets
1978-1984
102737329
Command language development and research
1971-1981
102737316
Company identity manual
1989-1990
102737334
Computing trends
1990-1991
102737324
CSO Business Council
1991
102737325
Customer advisory boards and steering committees
1981; 1991
102755945
DEC standards
1979-1983
102737347
DEC standards and specifications
1981
102737339
DEC trivia and general management trends
1983-1994
102737328
DEC's UNIX strategy and UNIX versus VMS
1979-1981; 1991-1992
102737332
DECsystem-10 development
1971-1973
102737330
Engineering operations and strategies
1982; 1993-1994
102737341
Implementation language development
1973-1978
102737318
Management activities and strategies
1976; 1988-1995
102737331
Management of Technology for Global Integration
(MTGI)
1990-1991
102737345
Olivetti-DEC partnerships
1992-1994
102737343
OpenVMS product development
1993-1995
102737317
Partnerships and clients
1991-1995
102737348
Peter Conklin microform collection
1972-1985
102737327
Peter Conklin notebooks
1975; 1994
102737319
Presentation slides and graphics
1983-1995
102737315
Product asset management reference set
1994-05
102737323
Product strategy and business plans
1981-1985; 1994-1995
102737340
Reuters RDB Project
1992-1993
102737336
Security and encryption policies and strategies
1974-1991
102737338
Software development
1969-1983; 1994
102737333
Software finances and revenue
1994-1995
102737321
Standards and glossaries
1966-1971; 1976-1981; 1990
102737322
Synergy Associates
1990-1991
102737335
Technical diagrams and drawings
circa 1988
102737326
VAX architecture and development
1975-1989
102737344
VMS-21 development
1991
Al Avery papers, Subseries 3.4,
1978-1994
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries contains papers collected by Albert (Al) Avery from 1978
to 1994 related to a variety of roles he worked in at DEC, including in
the Alpha Systems Technical Office working with Alpha AXP Systems, in
software integration with the Advanced Systems Group, as a product
manager in High Performance Systems, and in Engineering Processes and
Systems. A large amount of material in this subseries is focused on
efforts to develop better internal processes within the engineering
departments and between engineering and DEC's market-focused business
units. This material dates from 1989 to 1994, when DEC's business was
floundering and management was looking for ways to improve the company's
standing with customers and within the computer industry. Included are
project presentations by the consulting firm Booz Allen & Hamilton,
internal process documents, revenue analyses, and interviews with
customers and DEC employees to gauge satisfaction with the company. This
subseries also includes material related to specific systems and
technologies, such as Alpha AXP and VAXclusters, DEC's Stratton
conference proceedings, and Avery's engineering notebooks. This
subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
102739517
Achieving Excellence in Engineering initiative
1993-1994
102739524
Administrative material
1981-1982; 1993
102739519
Alpha AXP systems
1990-1993
102739522
Customer satisfaction planning
1990-1994
102739525
Departmental computing system proposal for General
Electric
1986
102739513
Notebooks
1991-1992
102739523
Revenue analyses
1978-1981
102739521
Strategic and process planning
1989-1993
102739527
Stratton proceedings
1980-1981
102739528
VAX 8974 sample configuration control document
1987
102739518
VAXcluster and Extended VAX (EVAX) planning
1987-1989
Roger Cady papers, Subseries 3.5,
1974-1983
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries comprises Roger C. Cady's correspondence and
administrative records from his work at DEC from 1974 to 1983. During
these years Cady worked as a manager for three different product groups
at DEC: first as product line manager for the Telephone Industry
Products Group; then in multiple management roles under Commercial
Systems Marketing groups; and finally as group manager and vice
president of the Manufacturing, Distribution, and Control (MDC) Product
Group. Of particular interest in this subseries are notes and outlines
of Cady's presentations given to clients, sales symposia, and
conferences relating to his work in the MDC group – including talks
given for a visit by Philip Morris representatives to DEC, a Montgomery
securities seminar, and a White House meeting of the U.S. Council for
World Communications Year (1983).
Arrangement
This subseries is arranged into two sub-subseries:
Sub-subseries 3.5.1, Correspondence, 1974-1983
Sub-subseries 3.5.2, Manufacturing, Distribution, and Control Product
Group records, 1980-1983
Correspondence, Sub-subseries 3.5.1,
1974-1983
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries contains Cady's letters, memoranda, and
handwritten messages primarily internal to DEC. From 1974 to 1977,
most of Cady's correspondence occurred within DEC's TELCO Product
Line when Cady worked as product line manager for DEC's Telephone
Industry Products Group. During the following years, from 1978 to
1980, the bulk of Cady's correspondence was under DEC's Commercial
Marketing department – including related units called Commercial
Systems Marketing and Commercial Systems Group. During these years
Cady first worked as group manager for Commercial Systems Marketing
and then as director of marketing. The remaining years of Cady's
correspondence relate to the management of DEC's MDC product group.
For many of his files, Cady kept an “index to correspondence,”
included at the beginning of each month's file, which lists the
subjects, dates, and participants for each month's correspondence. A
large portion of these files only contain correspondence that Cady
authored to others; however, for letters and memoranda authored
during Cady's work under MDC, correspondence sent to Cady by others
was also filed. Correspondence from parts of 1977-1978 and 1980-1983
were not included with this donation. Lastly, Cady kept a file
titled “external correspondence,” containing letters between Cady
and non-DEC employees, but which were still primarily work-related.
This sub-subseries is arranged chronologically.
102739491
1974, Jan-Mar
1974-01-03-1974-03-29
102739498
1974, Apr-June
1974-04-02-1974-06-30
102739499
1974, July-Sept
1974-07-03-1974-09-19
102739500
1974, Oct-Dec
1974-10-02-1974-12-31
102739501
1975, Jan-Mar
1975-01-02-1975-03-20
102739502
1975, Apr-June
1975-04-09-1975-06-27
102739503
1975, July-Sept
1975-07-08-1975-09-25
102739504
1975, Oct-Dec
1975-10-07-1975-12-31
102739505
1976, Jan-Mar
1976-01-06-1976-03-30
102739506
1976, Apr-June
1976-04-05-1976-06-29
102739507
1976, July-Sept
1976-07-02-1976-09-29
102739508
1976, Oct-Dec
1976-10-05-1976-12-21
102739509
1977, Jan-Mar
1977-01-10-1977-03-31
102739510
1977, Apr-June
1977-04-01-1977-05-31
102739511
1978, July-Dec
1978-07-11-1978-12-29
102739512
1979, Jan-June
1979-01-01-1979-06-29
102739514
1979, July-Dec
1979-07-02-1979-12-27
102739515
1980, Jan-July
1980-01-04-1980-07-09
102739516
1981, Mar-Dec
1981-03-17-1981-12-31
102739530
External correspondence
1981-03-23-1983-11-10
102739520
1982, Jan-June
1982-01-04-1982-06-30
102739526
1982, July-Dec
1982-07-01-1982-12-29
102739529
1983, Jan-June
1983-01-05-1983-06-28
Manufacturing, Distribution, and Control Product Group
records,
Sub-subseries 3.5.2,
1980-1983
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries consists of material collected and created by Cady
when he worked as vice president and group manager of DEC's MDC
product group from 1980 to 1983. Most of the material in this
sub-subseries concerns the planning and management of this group's
operations and products, which were marketed toward DEC's clients
with manufacturing activities to improve manufacturing automation
and productivity. One of MDC's product lines that is well-documented
in this sub-subseries is the Unified Plant Management (UPM) line. To
quote a letter to DEC sales representatives: “UPM recognizes and
provides short-term solutions to issues such as cost control and
productivity improvement and, at the same time, allows for long-term
planning and reduces investment risks.” This sub-subseries includes
records from MDC's Blue Ribbon Committee (BRC) meetings, which was
formed to define the department's accounts and strategies. Also
included are notes and outlines of Cady's speeches given to clients,
sales symposia, and conferences relating to his work in the MDC
group. MDC organizational charts and financial and performance
reviews for this product group are also in this sub-subseries. This
sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder title.
102737608
Financial overviews and departmental performance
reviews
1981-1983
102737609
Joint Manufacturing, Distribution, and Control (MDC) /
Computer Special Systems (CSS) agreements
1981-1983
102737610
Long range plan (LRP) meetings
1980-1983
102726316
Manufacturing, Distribution, and Control (MDC) Blue
Ribbon Committee (BRC) meetings
1981-1982
102737611
Manufacturing, Distribution, and Control (MDC) Product
Group organizational charts
1982
102737612
Operational plans
1980-1982
102737613
Product strategy plans
1981-1982
102737614
Speech and presentation notes
1980-1983
102737615
Unified plant management (UPM) products
1982-1983
Bev Schultz OpenVMS papers, Subseries 3.6,
Bulk, 1991-1994
1979-1994
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries is made up of material collected and created by Beverly
(Bev) J. Schultz from 1979 to 1994, with the bulk of material from 1991
to 1994 when she was the group manager for the OpenVMS Alpha Engineering
Group (1992 to 1994) and Office and Teamware Engineering (1990 to 1992).
The majority of material is related to the development of OpenVMS for
Alpha AXP systems. Material mainly includes presentations, reports,
handwritten notes, and memoranda focused on strategic planning for
engineering departments and OpenVMS and other operating systems,
including UNIX. There is a small amount of material related to Office
and Teamware Engineering. An interesting aspect of this subseries is
material related to the Synergistic Technologies Team, which focused on
creating a cross-OS engineering group and the interoperability and
migration between DEC's multiple operating systems. This subseries is
arranged alphabetically by folder title.
102739562
Alpha VMS Team and OpenVMS AXP development
1991-1994
102739546
Apple technology exchange
1993
102739549
Bundled and unbundled VMS products
1991-1993
102739551
Client/server personal computing
1992
102739553
Clusters
1991-1993
102739564
Course material
1982-1983
102739552
DECwindows
1993
102739550
Digital Equipment Computer Users Society (DECUS)
1984; 1993-1994
102739545
Expertise centers
1991-1993
102739565
Manuals and guides
1982-1993
102739566
MIT Media Laboratory Interface Agents Symposium
1992
102739558
Office and Teamware Engineering records
1991-1992
102739554
OpenVMS AXP operating system 64-bit project
report
1994
102739557
OpenVMS AXP source code licensing
1992-1993
102739560
Operating system interoperability and migration
1993-1994
102739556
Patent program
1992
102739559
Product and software studies
1992-1994
102739555
Quality reviews and metrics
1992-1993
102739567
Schultz biography
1994
102739563
Strategic planning
1989-1994
102739561
UNIX Software Group records
1994
102739548
VMS history
1980-1981; 1987-1993
102739547
Woods meetings
1979; 1987-1988; 1994
Lou Philippon papers, Subseries 3.7,
Bulk, 1981-1995
1967-1997
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries contains records relating to Lucien (Lou) R. Philippon's
various roles in product management and development at DEC. Some of
Philippon's job titles and areas of work at DEC include VAX-11/730
systems product manager, working in the Entry Systems Business (ESB)
Product Management group, and managing the development of DEC's MicroVAX
and Alpha systems. In this subseries, the system with the largest amount
of documentation is the DEC Alpha. Much of this material refers to the
earlier-named “Alpha AXP,” which later became known as just Alpha.
Alpha-related material includes project strategy presentation material,
descriptions and pricing of Alpha systems, status reports, and Alpha
nomenclature proposals. Other systems represented in this subseries
include DEC's VAX family (including MicroVAX and MicroVAX II),
UNIX-based systems, Windows NT, Sable, and NetWare. This subseries also
contains promotional material, catalogs, administrative records, sales
and marketing guides, business plans, manuals, performance reports for
various DEC products, press kits, documents relating to product pricing,
reports from customer feedback studies and forums, and a small amount of
material from DECUS and DECUS Canada. This subseries is arranged
alphabetically by folder title.
102739728
Administrative records
1981-1996
102739733
Alpha systems development
1991-1994
102739729
Automated Drafting System (ADS)
1967-1971
102739724
Business and marketing plans
1979-1995
102739742
Customer feedback forums and studies
1994
102739750
DEC event programs and course material
1985
102739748
Digital ASEAN Link (DiAL)
1997
102739744
Digital Equipment Computer Users Society (DECUS)
1984-1996
102739726
Enterprise Information Delivery Environment Architecture
(E-IDEA)
1990
102739747
Micro Systems Development (MSD)
1984-1985
102739734
Performance reports
1989-1996
102739731
Policy manuals and reference guides
1985-1993
102739738
Press coverage regarding Alpha servers, Open Software
Foundation, and other announcements
1988-1995
102739737
Press kits for Alpha and electronic mail systems
1994-1995
102739727
Product development
1985-1996
102739740
Product pricing
1983-1987; 1991-1994
102739743
Product shipments and exports
1979; 1986; 1993
102739735
Promotional material and catalogs
1985-1994
102739725
Sable System
1993-1994
102739741
Sales and maketing guides
1983; 1992-1996
102739730
Systems manuals and reference guides
1984-1992
102739736
UNIX systems development
1993-1996
102739739
VAX systems development
1981-1987; 1993
102739749
Windows NT
1993-1995
Eli Glazer memoranda, Subseries 3.8,
1978-1983
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries consists of memoranda sent to and from Eli Glazer from
1978 to 1983. Glazer worked at DEC from 1971 to 1986. He was the product
manager in charge of planning operations for Computer Systems
Development and, later, Corporate Product Management. The content of
both the incoming and outgoing memoranda is related to product strategic
planning, including the development of planning and product management
processes, and the gathering of information for the creation of product
portfolios and engineering strategic plans. Also included are planning
guidelines, phase management and review process plans, product
development meeting minutes, product schedules and pricing, and material
related to the Strategy Planning Unit. Glazer was also the executive
director of DECUS and there is quite a bit of material related to DECUS
symposia planning. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder
title.
102750788
Incoming memoranda
1980-1983
102750789
Outgoing memoranda
1978-1982
Sam Fuller corporate research records, Series 4,
1976-1997
Series Scope and Content
This series is made up of material collected and created by Samuel (Sam) H.
Fuller from 1976 to 1997. Fuller worked in Central Engineering at DEC from
1978 to 1998, initially creating the VAX Architecture Group and later
running all of DEC's research groups. He was the senior group manager of
Systems Architecture and Technology from 1982 to 1983, vice president of
Corporate Research and Architecture (CRA) from 1983 to 1996, and chief
scientist and vice president of Corporate Technology Strategy and Services
(CTSS) from 1996 to 1998. As the head of corporate research, Fuller led
DEC's research strategy and managed the company's research laboratories, the
External Research Program, and all its internal research groups. The first
three subseries in this series represent specific DEC departments and
groups, and they are arranged hierarchically according to DEC's
organizational structure: Central Engineering (subseries 4.1) is a top-level
DEC department, with CTSS (subseries 4.2) nested under it, and CRA
(subseries 4.3) nested under CTSS (CRA was directly under Central
Engineering for many years, but was moved under the newly created CTSS in
1994).
Arrangement
This series is arranged into nine subseries:
Subseries 4.1, Central Engineering planning, projects, and research,
1978-1997
Subseries 4.2, Advanced Technology Group / Corporate Technology Strategy and
Services records, 1993-1997
Subseries 4.3, Corporate Research and Architecture records, 1976-1997, bulk
1982-1997
Subseries 4.4, Other working groups, programs, and consortia, 1979-1997
Subseries 4.5, Presentations, 1977-1997
Subseries 4.6, External consultants, 1983-1995
Subseries 4.7, Customers and collaborators, 1983-1997
Subseries 4.8, Competitors, 1978-1996
Subseries 4.9, Correspondence, 1988-1997
Central Engineering planning, projects, and research, Subseries 4.1,
1978-1997
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries consists of material related to DEC's Central Engineering
department, dating from 1978 to 1997. Central Engineering was the
umbrella department for the groups Fuller managed. Material includes
long-range plans for Central Engineering and other Engineering groups,
including the Product Business Unit, Product Creation Unit, and Systems
Business Unit; product strategy plans; assumptions reports; minutes and
presentations from Engineering staff meetings; research into various
technology topics, including personal computers, advanced television,
networks, the internet, and parallel processing; and project development
records, including proposals and reports on Alpha, PRISM, VAX,
workstations, and UNIX/ULTRIX. Of note in this series is material
related to Central Engineering's 1993 reorganization, including meeting
minutes, correspondence, and presentations from Engineering Vice
President Bill Strecker and his staff. This series is arranged
alphabetically by folder title.
102750627
Achieving Engineering Excellence reports
1993
102750600
Advanced television research and development
1989-1996
102750622
ALL-IN-1 development
1989
102750563
Alpha development
1989-1996
102750564
Arachne development
1994-1995
102750619
Assumptions reports
1988-1994
102750626
Chairman's Award for Technical Excellence records
1996-1997
102750567
Computer-aided Acquisition and Logistics Support
(CALS)
1989
102750629
Corporate strategy
1991-1993
102750610
Corporate strategy briefings
1995-1996
102750630
CPU strategy
1988
102750566
Databus research and development
1984-1986
102750574
Display technology research
1993-04
102750569
Distributed systems development
1989-1990
102750612
Engineering beige book
1989-11
102750611
Engineering commitments/POR reports
1993
102750617
Engineering long-range plans and Product Creation Unit plans
for FY92
1991
102750616
Engineering long-range plans for FY90
1989
102750571
Fiber optics research
1984; 1992
102750633
High-end market analysis
1989
102750631
Industry strategy
1985-1993
102750575
LISP development
1984-1989
102750576
Mail systems development
1991
102750577
Manufacturing research
1991
102750570
Massively parallel processor research and
development
1987-1993
102750579
Microprocessor development
1991-1994
102750580
Mobile computing development
1992-1994
102750591
MS-DOS research
undated
102750581
Multi-chip module development
1992
102750601
Multiprocessor research
1978; 1990
102750583
National Research and Education Network
participation
1991-1992
102750582
Networks and internet research and strategy
1985-1997
102750584
Neural network research and development
1989-1991
102750585
NT strategy
1996
102750586
Object technology research and development
1995
102750587
Online transfer processing development
1986-1989
102750602
Parallel processing research
1986-1991
102750588
Personal computer research and development
1981-1995
102750589
PRISM, Titan, and RISC research and development
1984-1990
102750623
Processor and I/O performance data and slides
1990-05-31
102750609
Product Business Units long-range plans
1987-12-11
102750621
Product Creation Unit strategies and key product
update
1991-11
102750628
Product strategy
1983-1992
102750590
Semiconductor research
1985-1989
102750620
Senior management Woods Meeting
1992
102750568
SIGGRAPH '89
1989
102750592
Speech recognition technology research and
development
1989
102750632
Staff meetings and presentations
1993-1994
102750593
Standards research and development
1985-1988
102750594
STARS program
1991
102750613
Summary report : engineering plan of record
1993
102750595
Supercomputer research and development
1984-1991
102750597
Superconductor research
1987-1988
102750598
Systems benchmarking
1990
102750618
Systems Business Unit (SBU) product/engineering plans for
FY95
1994
102750634
Systems Task Force
1988
102750615
Technology Strategy Council (TSC) Woods Meeting
presentations
1988-1989
102750614
Technology Strategy Group (TSG) product strategy
overview
1995
102750599
Technology transfer research and development
1988-1994
102750596
TurboLaser development
1996-04-10
102750624
U.S. engineering space building profiles
1994
102750603
UNIX and ULTRIX strategy and development
1979-1991
102750565
VAX development
1984-1990
102750604
Vesta development
1991-04
102750573
Video and image technology research
1989
102750605
VLIW development
1989-1990
102750606
Wireless technology research
1991
102750607
Workstation development
1986-1990
102750578
X Windows development
1986-1989
102750608
Year 2000 preparation
1996-1997
Advanced Technology Group / Corporate Technology Strategy and
Services records,
Subseries 4.2,
1993-1997
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries contains material related to a DEC engineering group known
at different times as the Advanced Technology Group (ATG) and Corporate
Technology Strategy and Services (CTSS). Material dates from 1993 to
1997. ATG was formed as a group under Central Engineering in 1994,
headed by Vice President and Chief Technical Officer Bill Strecker.
Fuller's Corporate Research and Architecture group (CRA) was placed
under ATG at this time. In 1996, Fuller became the head of ATG and the
name was changed to CTSS. The group's main focus was to lead the
development of DEC's corporate technical strategy, seek out and promote
the development of innovative technologies, provide technical services
to the company, and encourage the development of DEC's technical staff.
These records focus on the various groups within ATG/CTSS, including the
Corporate Standards Group (CSG), External Technology Group (ETG),
Internet Business Working Group (IBWG), Mobile Software Business (MSB),
Technical Competency Development Group (TCDG), Technology Strategy Group
(TSG), and Video and Interactive Information Services (VIIS). Also
included is material that documents the development of ATG/CTSS,
including staff meeting minutes, department overviews, hiring plans,
business plans, project proposals, budgets, licenses and agreements, and
organizational charts. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by
folder title.
102750373
Corporate Research and Architecture collaborations with other
groups
1993-1994
102750374
Corporate Standards Group (CSG)
1996-1997
102750375
External Technology Group (ETG)
1996-1997
102750376
Internet Business Working Group (IBWG)
1994
102750122
Licenses and agreements
1994-1997
102750116
Mobile Software Business (MSB)
1994
102750378
Planning and administrative records
1994-1997
102750377
Staff meeting minutes
1994-1997
102750379
Technical Competency Development Group (TCDG)
1996-08-01
102750381
Technology Strategy Group (TSG)
1996-1997
102750380
Video and Interactive Information Services (VIIS)
1995
Corporate Research and Architecture records, Subseries 4.3,
Bulk, 1982-1997
1976-1997
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries is made up of material related to Corporate Research and
Architecture (CRA) from 1976 to 1997, with the bulk from 1982 to 1997.
Fuller was the vice president in charge of this department from 1983 to
1996; it was nested under Central Engineering, and later under the
Engineering group known first as Advanced Technology Group (ATG) and
later as Corporate Technology Strategy and Services (CTSS). CRA's focus
was on research and technical leadership and it comprised DEC's External
Research Program, research labs, and various research groups, plus it
provided technical support and training to all DEC departments,
published Digital Technical Journal, managed a corporate library, and
reviewed and monitored patents.
Arrangement
This subseries is arranged into three sub-subseries:
Sub-subseries 4.3.1, External Research Program, 1980-1995
Sub-subseries 4.3.2, Research laboratories, 1984-1997
Sub-subseries 4.3.3, Planning and administrative records, 1976-1997, bulk
1983-1996
External Research Program, Sub-subseries 4.3.1,
1980-1995
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries consists of material related to DEC's External
Research Program (ERP). Material dates from 1980 to 1995. Through
ERP, DEC created partnerships with the computer science and
electrical engineering departments of universities throughout the
world, collaborating with them on research projects that would
benefit DEC's own technologies and future products. DEC donated
funding, expertise, and equipment to the universities, and in return
received not only new technological advancements, but also a venue
to market its products to students and faculty, and a pool of
potential employee recruits in graduating university students. The
majority of this sub-subseries consists of material related to
specific universities and their DEC projects, proposals, grants, and
potential future collaborations. Most universities are in the United
States, with MIT, Carnegie Mellon University, and Stanford
University having the most material of all the schools. There are
also international schools represented, including University of
Tokyo; University of Bergen; University College, Dublin; Technical
University of Vienna; and University of Karlsruhe. There is also a
small amount of material related to the planning and development of
ERP and the associated Education Investment Review Board (EIRB),
which focused on DEC's relationships with and investment in
educational institutions. This sub-subseries is arranged
alphabetically by folder title.
102750060
Boston University
1983-1987
102750061
Brown University
1987-1993
102750062
California Institute of Technology
1984-1988
102750063
Carnegie Mellon University
1988-1997
102750064
Columbia University
1987
102750065
Cornell University
1989-1997
102750066
Cornell University Design Research Institute and
LARC
1993-1994
102750067
Education Investment Review Board
1986-1990
102750068
European Institute of Technology
1991-1993
102750108
External Research Program planning and
development
1980-1995
102750069
Harvard University
1992-1993
102750071
Lehigh University
1986
102750072
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
1983-1995
102750107
New Jersey Institute of Technology
1987
102750100
Pennsylvania State University
undated
102750074
Princeton University
1986-1991
102750073
Purdue University
1989-1990
102750075
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
1989-1991
102750076
Rochester Institute of Technology
1982-1992
102750077
Santa Fe Institute
1989
102750099
Sequoia 2000 and other flagship projects
1991-1993
102750104
Soviet universities
1991
102750078
Stanford University
1989-1995
102750084
State University of New York at Albany
1993
102750079
Stevens Institute of Technology
1989-1992
102750080
Syracuse University
1983-1991
102750101
Technical University of Vienna
1989
102750081
Tufts University
1986-1988
102750083
University College, Dublin
1993
102750098
University of Bergen
1993
102750105
University of California
1990
102750085
University of California, Berkeley
1987-1993
102750086
University of California, Los Angeles
1989
102750087
University of California, San Diego
1991-1997
102750088
University of Cincinnati
1993
102750102
University of Karlsruhe
1987-1995
102750106
University of Maine
1989
102750090
University of Massachusetts Amherst
1994
102750091
University of Michigan
1990-1994
102750103
University of Pennsylvania
1988
102750082
University of Southern California
1986-1993
102750092
University of Texas at Austin
1989
102750093
University of Tokyo and other Japanese
universities
1982-1988
102750094
University of Virginia
1991-1992
102750095
University of Washington
1983-1989
102750070
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1986-1990
102750096
West Virginia University
1992
102750097
Yale University
1988-1989
Research laboratories, Sub-subseries 4.3.2,
1984-1997
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries contains material related to DEC's Cambridge
Research Laboratory (CRL), Network Systems Laboratory (NSL), Paris
Research Laboratory (PRL), Systems Research Center (SRC), and
Western Research Laboratory (WRL). Material dates from 1984 to 1997.
NSL, SRC, and WRL were located in Palo Alto, California; CRL was
located in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and PRL was located in Paris,
France. Almost half of the material in this sub-subseries consists
of published articles by PRL researchers and article publication
requests sent to Fuller for his approval. The rest of the material
documents research projects and the day-to-day administration of the
labs, including personnel issues, reactions to corporate
restructuring, and the details surrounding the moving of WRL and
closing of PRL. This sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically by
folder title.
102750382
Cambridge Research Laboratory (CRL)
1987-1994
102750383
Network Systems Laboratory (NSL)
1991-1996
102750384
Paris Research Laboratory (PRL)
1988-1995
102750385
Systems Research Center (SRC)
1989-1995
102750386
Western Research Laboratory (WRL)
1984-1997
Planning and administrative records, Sub-subseries 4.3.3,
Bulk, 1983-1996
1976-1997
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries is made up of material related to the planning and
administration of Corporate Research and Architecture (CRA) dating
from 1976 to 1997, with the bulk from 1983 to 1996. About a quarter
of the material consists of CRA operating, strategic, and long-range
plans from 1987 to 1996. Another quarter of the material is related
to groups within CRA, including the Performance Technology Group
(PTG), Massively Parallel Systems Group (MPSG), Management Systems
Research (MSR), Artificial Intelligence Research Group (AIRG),
Engineers into Education Program (EEP), Graduate Engineering
Education Program (GEEP), Internal Control Committee, and Corporate
Technical and Information Services (CTIS), which was formerly known
as Technical Planning and Development (TP&D). Also included are
records related to CRA budgets and finances, employee hiring and
recruiting, product planning, legal issues, intellectual property,
facilities planning, staff meetings, public relations, and the DEC
periodical Research Quarterly. This sub-subseries also contains DEC
corporate materials that were likely used by Fuller in his
management of CRA, including a synopsis of staff development
programs, annual reports, financial overviews, and material on the
Executive Partnership Program (EPP). Also included is material
related to DECworld and the development of Digital Technical Journal
and Digital Engineering Journal. This sub-subseries is arranged
alphabetically by folder title.
102750394
Artificial Intelligence Research Group (AIRG)
1988-1992
102750400
Budgets and finances
1990-1993
102750406
Charter and mission
1984-1992
102750411
Computer Bowl '91
1990-1991
102750388
Corporate Technical and Information Services
(CTIS)
1991-1997
102750414
DEC annual reports
1988-1990
102750554
DEC annual stockholders meeting
1989-1990
102750553
DEC Board of Directors
1992-1993
102750635
DEC corporate strategy
1995-1997
102750416
DEC Government Relations
1989
102750408
DEC quarterly financial reports and
investments
1989-1995
102750417
DEC state of the company
1989-1992
102750413
DECworld
1990-1992
102750412
Digital Engineering Journal
1982-1984
102750391
Digital Technical Journal
1985-1991
102750418
Economic and computer outlook report
1989
102750401
Employee hiring and recruiting
1987-1994
102750395
Engineers into Education Program (EEP)
1983; 1989-1992
102750403
Facilities planning
1986-1992
102750396
Graduate Engineering Education Program (GEEP)
1985-1994
102750409
Internal controls
1988-1989
102750389
Legal records
1984-1994
102750404
Management and organizational development
1976-1991
102750390
Management Systems Research (MSR)
1988-1993
102750392
Massively Parallel Systems Group (MPSG)
1990-1993
102750399
Operating, strategy, and long-range plans
1987-1996
102750393
Patent policies
1995-1997
102750387
Performance Technology Group (PTG)
1995-1996
102750397
Product planning and financials
1983-1995
102750407
Public relations
1988-1995
102750398
Research quarterly
1989-1992
102750405
Staff development programs
1981-1993
102750402
Staff meetings
1990-1991
102750415
Travel authorizations
1991-1992
Other working groups, programs, and consortia, Subseries 4.4,
1979-1997
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries contains material related to DEC internal working groups
and programs that Fuller had filed under “Internal Committees,” and
external consortia that Fuller was involved in. Material dates from 1979
to 1997.
Arrangement
This subseries is arranged into two sub-subseries:
Sub-subseries 4.4.1, Internal working groups and programs, 1979-1997
Sub-subseries 4.4.2, External consortia, 1984-1997
Internal working groups and programs, Sub-subseries 4.4.1,
1979-1997
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries contains material related to DEC internal working
groups and programs, including committees, task forces, advisory
boards, boards of directors, and forums. Material dates from 1979 to
1997. Fuller was a member of or involved with many of these working
groups. These groups and programs typically evaluated specific DEC
programs and strategies and made recommendations for future
directions. The working groups with the most material in this
sub-subseries are the Corporate Contributions Committee, which
advised on corporate donations of cash and equipment; the Product
Committee, later called the Strategy Committee, which approved
corporate product and market strategies, reviewed and approved the
budget for corporate research, and reviewed product budgets and
deliverables; the SIMD Task Force, which made recommendations on
DEC's massively parallel processing computing strategies; the
Strategic Intent Task Force, which developed a strategic intent for
DEC that described the company's long-term vision to remain
competitive in the marketplace; and the Consulting Engineer
Promotion Board (also called the Consulting Engineer Review Board),
which created the process and criteria for the promotion of DEC
engineers to senior consultant engineers, and vetted and recommended
candidates. This sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder
title, and the folder titles are the group or program names.
102750526
Artificial Intelligence Board of Directors
1982-1989
102750523
Artificial Intelligence Technology Center
(AITC)
1989-1992
102750525
Benchmarking Committee
1990-1991
102750516
Benefits Investment Committees
1997
102750534
Business Performance Committee (BPC)
1992
102750521
Chemical R&D Customer Advisory Board
1992-1993
102750549
Clone Task Force
1988-1989
102750515
Compensation Committee
1992-1993
102750524
Computer Rationalization Committee (CRC)
1992
102750512
Consulting Engineer Promotion Board (CEPB) / Consulting
Engineer Review Board (CERB)
1985-1993
102750519
Convergence / Information Utility Task Force
1994
102750517
Corporate Contributions Committee
1992-1997
102750533
Corporate Operations Committee
1990-1991
102750535
Corporate Strategy and Management Committee
1992
102750513
Customer Advisory Board (CAB)
1996-1997
102750544
Data Bus Task Force
1989
102750536
Education Board of Directors
1990
102750522
European Technology Management (ETM)
1992
102750537
Executive Committee
1990-1992
102750410
Executive Partnership Program (EPP)
1989-1997
102750548
Future Business / Computing Task Force
1989
102750529
Government Systems Group
1988-1989
102750510
Interconnect Task Force
1979
102750532
Laboratory Data Products (LDP)
1985-1988
102750531
Mid-Range Systems Business (MSB)
1986-1990
102750547
Pacific Rim Task Force
1991-1992
102750545
Print Server Task Force
1984
102750541
Product Committee / Strategy Committee
1992
102750542
RAD Committee
1989-1991
102750538
Senior Leadership Team
1992
102750550
SIMD Task Force
1989-1991
102750530
Software groups
1989-1991
102750543
Strategic Intent Task Force
1992-1993
102750551
Systems Task Force
1990
102750540
Technical Directors Forum
1993
102750528
Technical Leader Program Task Team
1988
102750520
Technology Community Forum
1996
102750539
Technology Context Group
1992-1993
102750527
Technology Strategy Council
1988-1990
102750546
Vision Task Force
1989-1990
102750552
VPA/SPM Task Force
1989-1990
External consortia, Sub-subseries 4.4.2,
1984-1997
Sub-subseries Scope and Content
This sub-subseries contains material related to external consortia
that Fuller was involved with from 1984 to 1997. Almost half of the
material is related to the Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP),
now known as the Technology CEO Council, which is a consortium of
CEOs who work together to advance policies that promote innovation
and U.S. competitiveness through technology leadership. DEC CEO Bob
Palmer served as chairman of the CSPP from 1995 to 1997, and Fuller
was a CSPP member as a senior research official. Material includes
letters to government officials from Fuller, and CSPP membership
rosters, meeting minutes, and meeting briefing books. Another
consortium of interest in this sub-subseries is the Cross-Industry
Working Team (XIWT), a group made up of organizations within the
computer and telecommunications industry that was created as a
project of the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI).
Fuller was a board member of the CNRI. The XIWT was tasked to
develop a vision for the National Information Infrastructure (NII),
which was a goal of the Clinton Administration, with Vice President
Al Gore being particularly involved with the initiative. Other
consortia in this sub-subseries include the Computer Science
Telecommunications Board, Open Software Foundation, DECUS, and
DARPA's Information Science and Technology study group. This
sub-subseries is arranged alphabetically by folder title, and the
folder titles are the consortia names.
102750518
Advanced Computing Environment (ACE)
1991-1992
102750556
Collaborate with your competitors, and win
1989
102750372
Computer Science Telecommunications Board
(CSTB)
1992-1993
102750511
Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP)
1992-1996
102750555
CORETECH
1987-1993
102750557
Cross-Industry Working Team (XIWT)
1993-1996
102750559
DECUS
1993-1997
102750558
Information Sciences and Technology (ISAT)
1991
102750560
Microelectronics Center of North Carolina
(MCNC)
1984-1992
102750561
National Science Foundation (NSF)
1992-1997
102750562
Open Software Foundation (OSF)
1988-1993
102750514
Software Productivity Consortium (SPC)
1987
Presentations, Subseries 4.5,
1977-1997
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries is made up of presentations and talks from 1977 to 1997
that were primarily given by Fuller. When known, the name and date of
the event on which the presentation was given is listed in each record.
Many of Fuller's presentations are on the future of computing and
industry trends, or technology and research overviews of DEC, which he
gave at conferences, seminars, and colleges, and for clients and
potential customers. Other Fuller presentations are focused on the DEC
departments he was a part of, including the Office of Development,
Advanced Technology Group, and Corporate Research and Architecture.
These talks were mostly given internally at staff meetings and to
leadership, and they include departmental overviews, strategic plans,
project updates, and business and project plan proposals. Fuller also
collected presentations by his co-workers, with CTO and Central
Engineering Vice President Bill Strecker and DEC CEO Bob Palmer having
the most presentations. There is also a small amount of material that
Fuller filed as “general talk information,” which includes a mix of DEC
presentations; notes, outlines, and drafts of presentations and talks;
articles and other reference material; and an evaluation of Fuller's
speaking style by an external communication company. Finally, the last
folder of this subseries contains the presentation inventories that came
with the donation. These include the presentations' title, date, and
event. Fuller's original filing scheme was kept in the arrangement of
this series: He filed his own presentations¬—and a small number of
presentations by others or with no author listed—individually by
presentation, and he primarily filed presentations by others
alphabetically by their name. This subseries is In its original
order.
102750112
Multiprocessors
1978-10-30
102750113
Interconnect strategy
1979-04-04; 1979-04-24
102750114
Stratton IV Engineering Woods Meeting
1979-05-11
102750115
Technical Director's Group objectives
1979-08-16
102750117
OOD/PMC Woods Meeting
1979-11-07
102750118
Office of Development budget presentation
1980-01
102750119
Office of Development meeting
1980-03-13
102750120
MCF meeting
1980
102750121
TOEM Team meeting
1980-04
102750123
Office of Development jungle talks
1980-07
102750124
General architecture talk to B. Daley's staff
1980-08-04
102750125
EBOD meeting presentation
1977-1980
102750126
Reuters presentations
1980
102750127
Strategy presentations
1983-03-07; 1983-03-17
102750128
Jupiter DECUS talk
1983-05
102750129
Forum '84
1984-02
102750130
DEC engineering, research, and competition
1984-03-20
102750131
SRC reclassification presentation to Jack Smith's
staff
1984-04-16
102750132
Talk with New England recruiters
1984-1985
102750133
Bellcore talk
1984-05-29
102750134
Presentation to U.S. Congress
1985
102750135
Computer architecture talk given at IEEE International
Symposium
1985-06-17
102750136
Heald Pond Woods Meeting
1985-08-14
102750137
Consulting Engineer Promotion Committee
presentation
1985-09-19
102750138
Technology Management Committee presentation
1985-09
102750139
DECathlon '85
1985
102750140
Technology Management Committee review
1985-10-17
102750141
ULTRIX presentation
1985-10-19
102750142
Executive Committee review of Corporate Research and
Architecture
1985
102750143
Review and restructuring of the Technology Management
Committee
1985-12-02
102750144
Consulting engineer presentations
1985-1986
102750145
Future directions in computing reference
materials
1985-1988
102750146
Future of computing
1986-02-06
102750147
Plant managers meeting
1985-1986
102750148
Corporate Research and Architecture long-range
plan
1986-02-14
102750149
New directions within the computer industry
1986-02-24; 1986-10-27
102750150
Technology Management Committee long-range plans
recommendations
1986-03-20
102750151
Systems Task Force recommendations for Corporate Research and
Architecture
1985-11-20; 1986-02-14;
1986-05-14
102750152
Future of the computing industry
1986-06-19
102750153
Dean Witter Forum presentation
1986-09-11
102750154
New directions within the computer industry and Digital's
contributions
1986-10-27
102750155
Future directions in computing
1986-1987
102750156
Technology Strategy Council proposal
1987-02
102750157
Paris Research Laboratory proposal
1987-03-03
102750158
Technology Strategy Council preliminary
recommendations
1987-03-18
102750159
Corporate research presentation
1987-04-07
102750160
Congressional subcommittee presentation on technological
trends and issues in the computer industry
1987-04-15
102750161
Executive Committee presentation on workstations
1987-05-27
102750162
Corporate Research overview and future directions in
computing
1987-06-16
102750163
Executive Committee presentations on workstations
1987-06; 1987-07
102750164
Future directions in computing
1987-06-23
102750165
DEC strategy presentation
1987-09
102750166
Corporate Leaders Forum presentation on the Digital
perspective
1987-09
102750168
DECworld '87
1987-09
102750169
Corporate Research and Architecture FY89 operating plan
review
1988-03-04
102750170
Jack Smith's Woods Meeting presentation
1988-05-12; 1988-05-13
102750171
Officers' secretary review of Corporate Research and
Architecture
1988-05-18
102750172
Consultant Engineer Review Board research job codes
presentation
1988-06-30
102750173
Future directions in computing
1987-1988
102750174
MCC review and recommendations for advanced computer
architecture and software technology programs
1988-08-05
102750175
Technology trends and issues in the computer
industry
1988-08-09
102750176
Overview of Corporate Research
1988-09-14
102750177
DECathalon '88
1988-09; 1988-10
102750178
Parallel processing presentation
1988-11
102750179
Eagle/Raven comparisons
1988-12-09
102750180
Technology trends and issues in the computer
industry
1988-12
102750181
Distributed systems presentation
1989
102750182
Power Symposium '89
1989-01-24; 1989-05
102750183
Research results and plans
1989-02; 1989-03
102750184
Technology trends and issues in the computer
industry
1989-03
102750185
Corporate Research and Architecture review
1989-02-08; 1989-03-18
102750186
Future challenges and opportunities facing
Digital
1989-03-30
102750187
Technology trends and issues in the computer
industry
1989-04-11
102750188
National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator
Award presentation
1989-04-21
102750189
Technology Management Education Program
presentation
1989-06; 1989-07
102750190
Digital's distributed systems in the 1990s
1989-09-11
102750191
Research review with focus on Systems Research
Center
1989
102750192
Corporate Research and Architecture, Low End Systems, and MCC
presentations
1989-09-14
102750193
Corporate financial overview for FY90
1989-09-19
102750194
Future directions for computing in the office
1989
102750195
Engineers into Education Program proposal
1989-11
102750196
Business segment management meeting
1989-11-21
102750197
New power to engineers : workstations in the distributed
computing environment
1989-11-28
102750198
Product and Technology Strategy Committee meeting
1989-12-12
102750199
New power to engineers : workstations in the distributed
computing environment
1989-1990
102750200
Future business vision presentation series
1990-03-13
102750201
Mechanics of technology transfer at Digital
1990
102750202
Corporate Research and Architecture budget
presentation
1990-05-15
102750203
Technology Strategy Council review of research and advanced
development
1990-05-17
102750204
Athena software and services distribution
proposal
1990-06-01
102750205
Corporate Research and Architecture investment and
population
1990-07-12; 1990-07-13
102750206
DECworld and Corporate Research press briefing
1990-07
102750207
Technology transfer presentations
1990
102750208
EMC Corporate Research strategy presentations
1990-08-09
102750209
Bellcore corporate visit presentation on Digital's product
strategy
1990-08-29
102750210
Western Research Laboratory and Paris Research Laboratory
presentations
1990-09-14; 1990-09-18
102750211
From research to reality : why technology transfer is
tough
1990-1991
102750212
44th National Conference on the Advancement of
Research
1990-1991
102750213
University of Massachusetts at Amherst Technology Roundtable
keynote address
1990
102750214
SIMD Task Force summary report
1990-11-06
102750215
Corporate Research operating plan review
1990-03-23
102750216
MPP business plan proposals
1990-1991
102750218
Corporate Research budget process
1991-02-05
102750219
MasPar investment proposal
1991-03
102750220
A review of Corporate Research
1991
102750221
Research and advanced development
1991-04-23
102750226
DEC product strategy
1991
102750227
Executive Committee review of research and advanced
development
1991
102750228
Computer Systems Policy Project (CSPP) federal laboratory
project
1991-06-06
102750229
National Science Resources Center Elementary Science
Leadership Institute
1991
102750230
The truth about technology
1990-1991
102750231
Computers in a new age
1991
102750232
Fortune Education Summit
1991
102750233
Research review with focus on Cambridge Research Laboratory
and External Research Group
1991-11
102750234
Selected research topics at Digital
1991
102750235
Making distributed systems work
circa 1992
102750236
Strategic intent initiative technology team
meeting
1992-01-25
102750237
Corporate Research and Architecture staff meeting
1992
102750238
Corporate Research and Architecture programs and budget
proposal for FY93
1992-03
102750239
CASE vision overview
1992-03-13
102750240
The endangered innovation engine
1991-1992
102750241
Future technology developments in the IT industry
1992-04-22
102750242
Corporate Research and Architecture managers'
meeting
1992
102750243
Corporate Research and Architecture programs and budget
proposal for FY93
1992-05
102750244
Executive committee meeting on the Computer Systems Policy
Project (CSPP)
1992-05
102750245
ACM Sigmetrics and Performance '92 keynote
address
1992
102750246
Corporate Research and Architecture staff meeting
1992-06
102750247
Corporate interaction maps for FY92
1992-07-01
102750248
Corporate Research and Architecture operating plan proposal
for FY93
1992-07-06; 1992-08-05
102750249
MIT Lincoln Laboratory visit and overview of DEC's research
and advanced development programs
1992
102750250
Consultant Engineer Promotion Board Woods Meeting
1992
102750251
Corporate Research and Architecture operating plan proposal
for FY93
1992-09-14
102750252
Sequoia 2000 presentations
1992-09-15
102750256
Core Competencies Task Force presentation
1992-09-23
102750257
Trends and futures in technical and scientific
computing
1992-10-16
102750258
Digital's product directions
1992
102750259
Digital's product directions
1992-12-07
102750260
Trends and futures in the computer systems
industry
1993-01-26
102750261
Overview of research and advanced development
1993-03-02
102750262
Strategic intent meeting presentations given to DEC senior
leadership
1993-03-12
102750263
Overview of Research : vision, strategy,
deliverables
1993-03-26
102750264
Corporate Research review and FY94 proposal
1993-04-07
102750265
Accessing university research : the External Research
Program
1993-04-20
102750266
Technology context for Digital's strategic intent
1993-05
102750267
Digital's corporate strategy
1993-05-27
102750268
UNIX and Microsoft Windows NT : friends or foes
1993
102750269
National Information Infrastructure Testbed (NIIT)
announcement speech
1993
102750270
FY94 goals for Corporate Research
1993
102750271
Systems Research Center visit presentation
1993-10-25
102750272
General schedule of events in Corporate Research for
1993
1993-11
102750273
The information revolution has only just begun : technology
context for Digital's strategic intent
1993-11-22
102750274
The information revolution has only just begun : technology
context for Digital's strategic intent
1993-11-23
102750276
Update on research engagements with product
groups
1994-01
102750277
Corporate Research and Architecture managers'
meeting
1994-02-08
102750278
Update on research engagements with product groups and
candidate technical strategies
1993-02-25
102750279
Candidate research themes
1994-03-10; 1994-04
102750280
Discussion of Corporate Research with Systems
Engineering
1994-03-16
102750281
Candidate research themes
1994-03
102750282
The information revolution has only just begun
1994-03-29
102750283
Internet opportunity talk
1994-03-31
102750284
The information revolution has only just begun
1994-04
102750285
Corporate Research and Architecture staff meeting
1994-04-11
102750286
Why DEC needs research
1994-04-14
102750287
The information revolution has only just begun
1994-04-18
102750288
Corporate Research benchmarks
1994-04-22
102750289
Corporate Research and Architecture staff meeting
1994-05
102750290
Preliminary internet business plan
1994-05
102750291
The information revolution has only just begun
1994-05
102750292
Advanced Technology Group proposal
1994
102750293
The information revolution has only just begun
1994-07-21
102750294
DEC's product strategy and Advanced Technology Group
presentations
1994-09-29
102750295
1994 California general election
1994-11-08
102750296
Driving Digital's technical edge
1994-11
102750297
Making innovation happen
1994-11-30
102750298
Citicorp visit presentations
1994-1995
102750299
CSPP vision of the NII
1994-1995
102750300
Advanced Technology Group review of research
1995-01-25
102750301
The information revolution has only just begun
1993; 1995
102750302
Digital's research in emerging technologies
1995-02-01
102750303
Digital's direction
1994-1995
102750304
Mitsubishi corporate visit presentations
1995
102750306
Corporate research plan update and Advanced Programs Group
FY96 account overview
1995-05-12
102750307
The emerging information infrastructure : the next
information revolution
1995-05-17
102750308
Advanced Technology Group review of Corporate Research Group
plan
1995
102750309
Digital's emerging technologies and Advanced Technology
Group
1995-09
102750310
Advanced Technology Group review of Corporate Research Group
research plan
1995-09
102750311
Corporate Research Group research plan
1995-10-20
102750312
Digital's vision of future technologies : the information
revolution has only just begun
1995-10
102750313
Systems Business Group staff meeting on the Corporate
Research Group
1995-12-08
102750314
Alpha systems futures TRW technical briefing
1995-12-19
102750315
Corporate technology strategy
1996-01-16
102750316
Corporate strategy and technology review
1996
102750317
Corporate technology strategy and Corporate Research
plan
1996-02-15
102750318
Technology Strategy Group meeting
1996
102750319
Digital Unix
1996-06-04
102750320
Corporate technology strategy and services
1996-06-27
102750321
Fiat Group and Shared Medical Systems customer
visits
1996-07
102750322
Xerox Networking and Computing Trends Seminar
1996
102750323
ECS technical interchange meeting
1996-07-23
102750324
The argument for high performance computing
1996-07-24
102750325
ECS technical interchange meeting
1996-08-27
102750326
Alpha overview and futures
1996-09-04
102750327
Corporate technology overview
1996-09-09
102750328
What does the future hold?
1996-09-18
102750329
High performance computing
1995-1996
102750330
What does the future hold?
1996-10
102750331
Future of information systems : technology drivers, trends,
and possibilities
1996
102750332
Wildfire contingency planning meeting
1996-10
102750333
Digital's direction in high performance computing
1996-11-20
102750334
Digital's leading technologies
1996-12-06
102750335
Corporate technology strategy overview
1996-12-13
102750336
Digital and the year 2000
1996-1997
102750337
Digital and the year 2000
1997-03-20
102750338
Senior Technical Community Forum
1997
102750339
High performance computing
1997-04-16
102750340
Now that the internet has happened... what's
next?
1996-04-21
102750341
Corporate Technology Strategy and Services FY98
budget
1997-05-15
102750342
Digital's strategic directions and technologies : a corporate
update to TRW
1997-08-26
102750343
Digital technology overview
1997-09-24
102750344
Digital's year 2000 program
1997-10-21
102750345
The internet and electronic commerce : technical
directions
1997-11-07
102750347
Presentation by Jean Bonney
undated
102750348
Presentation by Wendy Caswell
1996-02
102750349
Presentation by Ralph Christensen
1993
102750350
Presentation by Peter Conklin
1993-05-27
102750351
Presentations by Thomas Gannon
circa 1986; 1993-11-12;
1994-03-18
102750352
Presentation by Skip Garvin
1995-04-18
102750353
Presentation by Win Hindle
1992-09
102750354
Presentation by D. Graham Holmes
1987-11-05
102750355
Presentation by Kathy Hornbach
1993-10-22
102750356
Presentation by Bill James
1993-08-20
102750357
Presentation by Bob Jolls
1993-05
102750358
Presentation by Ira Machefsky
1992-09-23
102750359
Presentation by Lloyd Mayhew
1993-12
102750360
Presentations by Bob Palmer
1992-09; 1993-09; 1994-11
102750361
Presentations by Brian Reid
1994-02-25; 1993-12-03
102750362
Presentation by Stan Smits
1993-12-14
102750363
Presentation by Pat Spratt
1993-12-10
102750364
Presentations by Bill Strecker
1993-1995
102750365
Presentations by Bob Supnik and David Stone
1992-11
102750366
Presentation by Tim Yeaton
1993-06-05
102750367
Presentation by Jay Zager
1995
102750368
General talk information
1987-1996
102750446
Presentation inventories
1998
External consultants, Subseries 4.6,
1983-1995
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries contains material related to external consultants DEC
hired to advise on the company's research and development, engineering,
and product strategies. Material dates from 1983 to 1995. Consultants
include Duane Adams; Andersen Consulting; Arthur D. Little; Bain &
Company; Booz-Allen & Hamilton; Charles Ferguson; Robert Kahn
working with the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (NRI);
Edward B. Roberts working with PA Consulting Group; and Sutherland,
Sproull, and Associates. The material mainly consists of presentations,
reports, and correspondence that provide analyses and suggestions for
improving DEC's research and development, engineering, and product
strategies, and reports on the feasibility of developing specific
products. The material from Charles Ferguson focuses on the competition
from the Japanese computer industry. Also included is administrative
material, like invoices and internal correspondence about hiring
choices. Of particular interest in this subseries is a letter from Booz
Allen Hamilton that outlines problems they observed with DEC's company
culture that they felt created particular challenges. This subseries is
arranged alphabetically by folder title, and the folder titles are the
company or consultant names.
102750496
Duane Adams
1983-1985
102750497
Andersen Consulting
1991-1992
102750502
Arthur D. Little
1995
102750503
Bain & Company
1995
102750504
Booz-Allen & Hamilton
1992-1995
102750505
Charles Ferguson
1986-1990
102750506
Robert Kahn (NRI)
1986-1988
102750508
PA Consulting Group
1992-1993
102750509
Sutherland, Sproull, and Associates
1985-1992
Customers and collaborators, Subseries 4.7,
1983-1997
Subseries Scope and Content
This subseries is made up of material related to DEC's customers and
collaborators from 1983 to 1997. The companies and organizations in this
subseries purchased products and services from DEC, or entered into
licensing agreements or mutually beneficial research or production
partnerships with DEC. Many companies were both customers and
collaborators, using DEC equipment and collaborating with them. The
majority of material is related to meetings DEC held with these
companies to discuss partnership opportunities or their customer
accounts. Most customers and collaborators are American corporations,
but there is also material related to the U.S. government and Chinese
and Korean companies. The companies with the most material in this
subseries are MasPar, Intelligent Memory Technology Ltd. (IMTL),
Philips, MAYA Design Group, and MIPS Computer Systems. The MAYA Design
Group material is related to a collaborative project called the
Hyperfax, and the MIPS material is primarily related to the licensing of
MIPS technology to DEC. This subseries is arranged alphabetically by
folder title, and the folder titles are the company names.
102750489
Adobe
1984-1986
102750491
Advanced Programs Group
1995-1996
102750493
Alcoa
1985-1992
102750494
Allegheny District
1989-1992
102750495
BBN Advanced Computers
1987-1991
102750436
Bellcore
1988-1992
102750435
Bell-Northern Research (BNR)
1993
102750437
Boeing
1983-1993
102750438
Chinese opportunities
1985-1990
102750439
Citibank
1990-1994
102750440
Citicorp
1992-1995
102750442
Compass
1989-1991
102750443
Concurrent Computer
1990
102750444
Corning
1990; 1996
102750445
Cray Research
1985-1996
102750448
DuPont
1988-1993
102750449
Elsag Bailey
1996
102750450
Fisher Controls
1989
102750452
Fortune magazine
1987-1991
102750453
General Electric
1987-1992
102750454
General Instruments
1991
102750455
GigaBit Logic
1987
102750458
Intelligent Memory Technology Ltd. (IMTL)
1991-1992
102750459
Kodak
1984-1993
102750460
Korean opportunities
1992-1993
102750461
Lockheed
1988-1993
102750462
MasPar
1989-1993
102750507
MAYA Design Group
1986-1995
102750463
McDonnell Douglas
1988
102750465
Meiko World
1991-1992
102750466
Michelin
1993-02-09
102750468
Microsoft
1983-1995
102750469
MIPS Computer Systems
1988-1993
102750470
Motorola
1983-1995
102750467
Network Appliance Corp. (NAC)
1993
102750471
Network Solutions Inc. (NSI)
1997
102750473
Olivetti
1989-1995
102750474
Ontologics
1990
102750475
Philips
1990-1994
102750476
PPG Industries
1989
102750478
Raytheon
1992-1993
102750480
Schlumberger
1989-1992
102750481
Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA)
1992
102750482
Semiconductor Research Corporation (SRC)
1983-1992
102750483
Silicon Graphics
1987-1996
102750485
Teradyne
1987-1989
102750487
Texas Instruments
1986-1991
102750486
Thinking Machines
1985-1989
102750490
United States government
1996
Competitors, Subseries 4.8,
1978-1996
Subseries Scope and Content
Material in this subseries documents DEC's monitoring of its corporate
competition from 1978 to 1996. The companies with the most material in
this subseries are IBM, Sun Microsystems, Fujitsu, and Xerox. There is
also material related to competition with the Japanese computer
industry. The majority of material consists of analyst reports and
competitive analyses of DEC's competition, along with articles about the
companies. Also included are internal memos and reports related to
meetings DEC had with these companies, prospective collaborations with
them, and strategies to compete with them. This subseries is arranged
alphabetically by folder title, and the folder titles are the company
names.
102750420
Apple
1979-1991
102750422
Floating Point Systems
1978
102750423
Fujitsu
1986-1990
102750424
Hewlett Packard
1988-1995
