DISC Photo Archive

I will be gathering photographs taken at Dewar Information Systems Corporation from its start in 1975 until it was sold to Sysdeco on August 28, 1995. If you have photographs you would like to include here, please email them to info@cesdewar.com.

Office at 221 Lake Street in Oak Park, Illinois, ca. 1978. PDP/8a Minicomputer (running Disc/Edit) with Beehive Terminal and Printer.

CESD with PDP8/a minicomputer, RX01 8" floppy disc drives and RK05 Disk Drive ca 1978. The PDP/8 had 8k of 12-bit memory and a 1.6usec Instruction Cycle (typical 2016 Smartphone has 4 million times as much memory and operates more than a thousand times faster).

DISC/Net - originally built using an Intel 80188 CPU and STD bus and featured one of the very first commerical Local Area Network architectures (based on Arcnet) in the US. Photographs taken in the early 1980's.

The DISCOVERY terminal was the first WYSIWYG color terminal used in the publishing systems industry. Shown here was the original implementation using proprietary hardware. In 1986, DISCovery was ported to an industry standard PC using an 80386 processor.

CESD with the Draft-8 logo (precursor to DISC/Edit, that I developed at Datalogics, before I formed DISC). I still have the PDP8/e minicomputer at the top of the rack (haven't turned it on though in some 40 years..)

CESD holding Blue Chip Enterprise award. In background are acknowledgements for Entrepreneur Hall of Fame, Illinois High Tech Entrepreneur of the Year, and a bunch of other things :)

CESD demonstrating pagination software at an ANPA Show - we were excited to have "software in a box" - something our industry had not seen before as it started the transition to off-the-shelf software.

CESD in his office at Executive Place III.

In the foreground is the table where all the Executive Committee meetings were held (with a set of the Inc-500 coasters - that I still have - on the table). And the world maps are by the front door of my Texas house.

DISC party at my house in LaGrange Highlands. There were 10 employees then, and I had announced that our sales had gone over $1m for the first time, so I was going to share it all with the employees - everyone got a $100,000 candy bar :)