1962External preservation
Proceedings · PDF
The first DECUS Proceedings
A surviving volume from DECUS's earliest years: practical papers, program notes, and the texture of a user community learning in public.
Knowledge library
Documents with their evidence attached.
The library will unite manuals, proceedings, newsletters, scans, technical notes, and searchable transcripts without separating an artifact from its source history.
Attachments & reading room
Open the paper trail.
Proceedings, newsletters, program-library records, and community ephemera show how the culture actually worked. Files open at the preserving institution; dates, custodians, and formats stay visible.
Modern curatorial illustrationNot an original photograph
The paper trail behind shared software.
A visual interpretation of the proceedings, listings, tapes, cards, and working notes through which programs and knowledge traveled. It does not reproduce a specific archive object.
c. 1963External preservation
Program library record
DECUS Program Library procedures
A Computer History Museum record of the practical machinery behind shared software: submission, documentation, copying, and exchange.
1962–1983External preservation
Magazine collection
DECUSCOPE magazine collection
Newsletters, reports, technical articles, and community announcements preserved as a browsable run of period publications.
UndatedExternal preservation
Community ephemera · PDF
DECUS membership application
A modest form that opens a larger window onto participation: interests, systems, geography, and the human network behind the machines.
1962–1988External preservation
Proceedings collection
DECUS Proceedings collection
A substantial independent collection of symposium proceedings—evidence of how users documented systems, applications, and hard-won solutions.
1990External preservation
Call for papers · PDF
DECUS Europe Symposium 1990
A period call for papers that captures a community poised between mature minicomputing practice and the networked decade about to begin.
FOUNDATIONAL SOURCE RECORDS
Contemporary source
DECUS and the PDP-1 community
The Computer History Museum traces DECUS to a 1961 meeting of PDP-1 users who wanted to create a shared program library.
External preservation
DECUServe: where DECUS met daily
VMS Software documents DECUServe's March 1987 launch, its dial-up origins, DEC Notes conferencing system, and daily-community role.
External preservation
PDP-11 DECUS Software Index
A surviving catalog demonstrates the extraordinary range of user-contributed software, utilities, languages, scientific tools, and games.