Chester-Bell-Obituary

Chester Gordon Bell

San Francisco, CA

Aug 19, 1934 – May 17, 2024 (Age 89)

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BORN
August 19, 1934
DIED
May 17, 2024
AGE
89
LOCATION
San Francisco, CA

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C. Gordon Bell, a technology visionary whose computer designs for Digital Equipment Corporation fueled the emergence of the minicomputer industry in the 1960s, died May 17 at his home in Coronado, Calif. He was 89.Bell was born in Kirksville on Aug. 19, 1934 to Chester Bell, an electrician, and...

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One of Gordon's proudest moments was receiving the National Medal of Technology at a ceremony in the White House in 1991. Picture with George H. W Bush below.