(Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, MA) The first minicomputer company. Commonly known as DEC or Digital, it was founded in 1957 by Kenneth Olsen, who headed the company until he retired in 1992.

The exterior pockets make it easy to get to my in-flight essentials (which mostly consist of my Kindle and M&Ms.) Computer backpacks are an essential piece of equipment for many digital nomads.

Introduced in 1971, the microprocessor is basically the fundamental driving force and brain of all of the digital equipment we use today — from iPhones and computers to notebooks and tablets.

[RetroBytes] takes us on a whirlwind tour of the history of the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), its founder Ken Olsen, and during intermission builds up a working replica of the PDP-11 from a ...