On Line

This issue of On Line, the newsletter for Digital Equipment Corporation, highlights company news and achievements from April 1968. Key topics include:

• Operations and Facilities: The opening of a new Plated-Through-Hole circuit board facility and the successful efforts by employees to protect company buildings during the Assabet River flood.
• Company Growth: President Ken Olsen reports that Digital ranks fifth globally in total computer installations. The issue also details marketing personnel updates for the PDP-9, PDP-10, and Clinical Lab System product lines.
• Technology and Manufacturing: Details on the production process for the new circuit board facility, the maintenance of a "Canadian Identity" for the Computer Lab educational tool, and various novel applications of DEC computers by organizations like the U.S. Air Force.
• Employee Development and Culture: The company’s Tuition Refund Program, which supports employees pursuing higher education, as well as updates on employee training courses, a record turnout for the company softball league, and a list of employee work anniversaries.