Editing Gordon Bell (section)

===Digital Equipment Corporation===
The [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]] founders [[Ken Olsen]] and [[Harlan Anderson]] recruited him for their new company in 1960, where he designed the [[I/O]] subsystem of the [[PDP-1]], including the first [[Universal asynchronous receiver-transmitter|UART]]. Bell was the architect of the [[PDP-4]], and [[PDP-6]]. Other architectural contributions were to the [[PDP-5]] and [[PDP-11]] [[Unibus]] and General Registers architecture.<ref name=NMAHinterview>{{cite interview |last=Bell |first=Gordon |subject-link=Gordon Bell |interviewer= David K. Allison |title=Oral History Interview with Gordon Bell |url=http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/bell.htm |publisher=[[National Museum of American History]] |location=Palo Alto, California |date=April 2005 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050402125352/http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/comphist/bell.htm |archive-date=April 2, 2005}}</ref>

After DEC, Bell went to [[Carnegie Mellon University]] in 1966 to teach [[computer science]]. He returned to DEC in 1972 as vice-president of engineering, where he was in charge of the successful [[VAX]] computer.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Rifkin |first=Glenn |date=2024-05-21 |title=C. Gordon Bell, Creator of a Personal Computer Prototype, Dies at 89 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/technology/c-gordon-bell-dead.html |access-date=2024-05-22 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331 |archive-date=May 22, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240522040859/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/technology/c-gordon-bell-dead.html |url-status=live }}</ref>