Editing Digital Equipment Corporation (section)

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* VAX and [[MicroVAX]] computers (very widespread in the 1980s) running [[OpenVMS|VAX/VMS]] formed one of the most important proprietary networks, [[DECnet]], which linked business and research facilities. The DECnet protocols formed one of the first peer-to-peer networking standards, with DECnet phase I being released in the mid-1970s. Email, file sharing, and distributed collaborative projects existed within the company long before their value was recognized in the market.
* The LA36 and LA120 [[dot matrix printer]]s became industry standards and may have hastened the demise of the [[Teletype Corporation]].
* The [[VT100]] computer terminal became the industry standard, implementing a useful subset of the [[ANSI X3.64]] standard, and even today [[Computer terminal|terminal]] emulators such as [[HyperACCESS|HyperTerminal]], [[PuTTY]] and [[Xterm]] still emulate a VT100 (or its more capable successor, the [[VT220]]).
* DEC invented [[Digital Linear Tape]] (DLT), formerly known as CompacTape, which began as a compact backup medium for MicroVAX systems, and later grew to capacities of 800 gigabytes.
* Work on the first hard-disk-based MP3 player, the [[Personal Jukebox]], started at the [[DEC Systems Research Center]]. (The project was started about a month before the merger into [[Compaq]] was completed.)
* DEC's Western Research Lab created the [[Itsy Pocket Computer]]. This was developed into the Compaq [[iPaq]] line of [[Personal digital assistant|PDAs]], which replaced the [[Compaq Aero]] PDA.
* DEC also produced a proprietary personal computer known as the [[Rainbow 100]]. It could run either MS-DOS or CP/M but from a hardware standpoint it was largely incompatible with the IBM PC.<ref>{{cite web
 |url=https://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/639/retro-scan-of-the-week-dec-rainbow
 |title= <nowiki>[</nowiki>Retro Scan of the Week<nowiki>]</nowiki> The DEC Rainbow 100
 |last=Edwards  |first=Benji  |date=March 8, 2010 |website=Vintage Computing and Gaming  |access-date=October 23, 2021 }}</ref>