The facebook group "At The Controls" features photos of the straight-8 assembly line https://www.facebook.com/groups/779220482206901/posts/6670280009767556/ Michel Talbot Engineers testing PDP-8 "Straight-8" minicomputers on a production line at Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts 1965. Founded in 1957 by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson, DEC was one of the most successful computer companies of the 20th century, reaching nearly $14 billion in revenue and over 120,000 employees worldwide. Their seminal contribution - the minicomputer - was the revolutionary bridge between large-scale mainframes and personal computers. Blending a non-traditional business culture with a robust line of commercially successful computers, DEC made computing accessible to multiple new markets and changed the way society used technology. In addition to being smaller, faster, and cheaper than mainframes, the minicomputer was accessible to non-specialized users. Their 12-bit PDP-8 was the first commercially successful line of minicomputer, with over 50,000 units being sold