DEC had about 200,000 employees at its peak. HP, of course, bought Compaq who bought DEC, not that there was much left at that point. If you're interested, there's a book by Edgar H Schein and Paul J Kampas entitled, "DEC Is Dead, Long Live DEC: The Lasting Legacy of Digital Equipment Corporation".
Also check out out Bob Supnik's site, the Computer History Simulation Project, http://simh.trailing-edge.com, which has emulators for most DEC hardware: PDP-1, PDP-4, PDP-7, PDP-8, PDP-9, PDP-10, PDP-11, PDP-15, VAX. Most DEC OS's are available there as well. I have successfully run VMS on SimH on OS X.
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Also check out out Bob Supnik's site, the Computer History Simulation Project, http://simh.trailing-edge.com, which has emulators for most DEC hardware: PDP-1, PDP-4, PDP-7, PDP-8, PDP-9, PDP-10, PDP-11, PDP-15, VAX. Most DEC OS's are available there as well. I have successfully run VMS on SimH on OS X.