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.
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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.
PDP-11 DECUS Software Index ↗
A surviving catalog demonstrates the extraordinary range of user-contributed software, utilities, languages, scientific tools, and games.
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.
DECUS Program Library procedures ↗
A Computer History Museum record of the practical machinery behind shared software: submission, documentation, copying, and exchange.
DECUSCOPE magazine collection ↗
Newsletters, reports, technical articles, and community announcements preserved as a browsable run of period publications.
DECUS membership application ↗
A modest form that opens a larger window onto participation: interests, systems, geography, and the human network behind the machines.
DECUS Proceedings collection ↗
A substantial independent collection of symposium proceedings—evidence of how users documented systems, applications, and hard-won solutions.
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.
The DECUS.org story
A chronology of DECUS, DECUServe, decus.org, and Eric Bach's 1990 recollection.
Forum archive
The planned read-only home for recovered conferences, topics, posts, and participants.
Knowledge library
Documents, manuals, proceedings, newsletters, and source records with visible provenance.
Software catalog
A rights-aware catalog for historic packages, code notes, checksums, and related manuals.
1990 time capsule
The people, systems, language, and network culture surrounding the remembered 1990 era.