Artifact Details

Title

Guide to the Gordon Bell Collection of DEC Documents

Catalog Number

102804238

Type

Document

Description

The Gordon Bell Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) papers contain a selection of digitized personal and professional materials from Bell’s time as a DEC engineer. These materials reference early PDP-1,4, 5 and 6 computers (1960 to 1966) and discuss the creation of the PDP-11. There are also documents from Bell’s time as a DEC consultant while at Carnegie-Mellon University (1965 to 1972), and memos, papers, presentations etc., as Vice President of Research and Development at DEC (1972 to 1983).

Date

1960-2017; bulk 1963-1998

Author

Bell, Gordon C.

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Extent

658 megabytes

Category

Finding Aid

Subject

Bell, Gordon; PDP computers; Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC); VAX Computer; Computer pioneers; Olsen, Kenneth; Computer Museum (Boston, Mass.); Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE)

Collection Title

Bell Collection of DEC Documents

Lot Number

X8295.2018