Summary

Membership information booklet, produced by DECUS, Digital Equipment Computer Users Society. U.S.A., late 1960s. The document provides DECUS membership information, and application forms. It contains several black and white photographs of PDP-1 though to PDP-10 computer systems installed at various institutions.

The Digital Equipment Computer Users Society (DECUS) was set up by early users of the PDP-1 computer, which was manufactured by Digital Electronic Corporation (DEC), in Massachsetts, United States of America. The creation of DECUS was driven by the need to share information and computer programs for the PDP-1. One of the key reasons was that early users had to write their own software; DEC initially sold only hardware. Set up in 1961, DECUS grew to be one of the largest international societies of computer users in the world.

Physical Description

Portrait format booklet with a black, grey and mustard coloured cover. The content covers board member information, objectives, individual membership application procedures, Decus program library titles and publications. The printed text is supplemented by black and white photographs of Decus related products and staff members 'at work'. The journal also contains to loose leaf membership application forms.

Significance

Good representative photographs showing early PDP series computer installations.

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