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Digital Equipment Corporation (MA) (Images of America)

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I worked at DEC from from 1977 until the Compaq and HP mergers and enjoyed looking at the old photos. That said, you have to wonder why some of the pictures are included (unknown person in front of a door, doesn't say much about anything). I'm sure my fellow ex-DECies could have provided better photos to go with the text.

Digital was a great place to be and this book brings back some of the memories.

I have a nagging feeling this book is best suited for those who worked at DEC. If this describes you, then you are welcome to a flood of nostalgia as you turn the pages.

Many of the best selling DEC machines are shown. The PDP, the DEC-10, the Vaxes and the MicroVax. But the photos also show some of the people instrumental in getting those projects accomplished.

The photo collection is not that systematic. No doubt it omits many or most of those at DEC. But at least, in some small way, DEC lives on in this book.

Pretty much no history of either the product or the company. Just lots of relatively meaningless pictures of board room type meeting poses. I gave the book away to a library - it was the only way I could justify the cost...