Verified external history
A library built by users
PDP-1 users organize around a practical idea: exchange programs, experience, and technical knowledge.
Timeline
The future was discussed here.
A compact chronology separates established DECUS history, the DECUServe record, the decus.org era, Eric Bach’s testimony, and the present preservation project.
Verified external history
A worldwide technical community
Software libraries, special-interest groups, proceedings, conferences, and DECUSCOPE connect practitioners across systems and borders.
Verified external history
Where DECUS met daily
DECUServe opens as a dial-up online meeting place using the DEC Notes character-cell conferencing system.
Founder recollection
Eric Bach's administration era
The archive records Eric Bach's account of administering the online community from 1990. Supporting records are being sought and will be labeled separately.
Contemporary source
decus.org in the public record
Contemporary references point to decus.org for FTP, symposium material, email services, and a U.S. DECUS home page.
New preservation project
The reconstruction begins
A modern, non-commercial, read-only archive is designed to preserve our beloved computing community from the good old days without pretending the forum is still active.