Chester Gordon Bell is an American electrical engineer and manager. An early employee of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) 1960–1966, Bell designed several of their PDP machines and later became Vice President of Engineering 1972–1983, overseeing the development of the VAX computer systems. Bell's later career includes entrepreneur, investor, founding Assistant Director of NSF's Computing and Information Science and Engineering Directorate 1986–1987, and researcher emeritus at Microsoft Research, 1995–2015.
Gordon Bell
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation, using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president until he was forced to resign in 1992, after the company had gone into precipitous decline.
Assabet Woolen Mill, former headquarters of Digital Equipment Corporation from 1957 to 1992
DEC was headquartered at a former wool mill in Maynard, Massachusetts, from 1957 until 1992.
System Building Blocks (System Module) 1103 hex-inverter card (both sides)
PDP-1 System Building Block #4106, circa 1963 - note that one transistor (yellow) has been replaced