Middlesex County, Massachusetts

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 40. Chapters: Digital Equipment Corporation, National Register of Historic Places listings in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts's 3rd congressional district, Massachusetts's 5th congressional district, Massachusetts's 1st congressional district, Massachusetts's 4th congressional district, History of Acton, Massachusetts, Government of Framingham, Massachusetts, Historical United States Census totals for Middlesex County, Massachusetts, Massachusetts's 8th congressional district, Massachusetts's 6th congressional district, Massachusetts's 7th congressional district, Tab Communications, National Register of Historic Places listings in Sherborn, Massachusetts, DeMoulas/Market Basket, The MetroWest Daily News, News-Transcript Group, Beacon Communications Corporation, New England Junior Huskies, Historic places in Framingham, Massachusetts, Daily Times Chronicle, Middlesex County Sheriff's Office, Enterprise-Sun, The Sun, Waban, Medford Daily Mercury, Malden Evening News, The Daily News Tribune, Beacon Power, Community Weeklies, WYAJ, WCAP, WIQH, Bay State Newspaper Company, WHAB, The Wakefield Daily Item, Rumbo, Stoneham Independent, GE Measurement & Control Solutions, American Waltham, Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems. Excerpt: This is a listing of places in Middlesex County in the U.S. state of Massachusetts that are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted April 29, 2011. The following Middlesex County communities have large numbers of sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places. Lists of their sites are on separate pages, linked below. Digital Equipment Corporation was an American company in the computer industry and a leading vendor of computer systems, software and peripherals from the 1960s to the 1990s. Also known as DEC and using the trademark DIGITAL, its PDP and VAX products were arguably the most popular minicomputers for the scientific and engineering communities during the 1970s and 1980s. From 1957 until 1992 its headquarters was located in an old wool mill in Maynard, Massachusetts. DEC was acquired in June 1998 by Compaq, which subsequently merged with Hewlett-Packard in May 2002. Some parts of DEC, especially the compiler business and the Hudson, Massachusetts facility, were sold to Intel. Digital Equipment Corporation should not be confused with the unrelated companies Digital Research, Inc or Western Digital (despite the latter manufacturing the LSI-11 chipsets used in DEC's low end PDP-11/03 computers). Initially focusing on the small-end of the computer market allowed DEC to grow without its potential competitors making serious efforts to compete with them. Their PDP series of machines became popular in the 1960s, especially the PDP-8, widely considered to be the first successful minicomputer. Looking to simplify and update their line, DEC replaced most of their smaller machines with the PDP-11 in 1970, eventually selling over 600,000 units and cementing DECs position in the industry. Originally designed as a follow-on to the PDP-11, DEC's VAX-11 series was the first widely used 32-bit minicomputer, sometimes referred to as "superminis". These were able to compet