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    Information Research Services Updated: 24 November 1997
         
             
                 
              March:
DIGITAL announces a new mid-range price/performance system, the
PDP-11/60.
                 
              May:
DIGITAL announces its newest computer, the
DECstation, a family of components centered around the VT78 Video Data Processor.
                 
              October:
Introduction of the
VAX-11/780, the first member of the VAX computer family.
                     
              DIGITAL opens the DIGITAL Diagnosis Center (DDC) in Colorado Springs, Colorado. It is the industry's first facility for computerized remote diagnosis.
                     
              DIGITAL is the first computer company to connect to the ARPAnet. The connection is made via a PDP-10.