Artifact Details

Title

User interacting with an early Computer Aided Design (CAD) program running on a PDP-1 computer

Catalog Number

102652246

Type

Still Image

Description

This is a black and white image of a man using a light pen on the PDP-1 monitor screen. The screen shows a graphic representation of a triangle inside a box. The man is dressed in a suit and tie. He is looking away from the camera. Light is coming from the right side of the image. Written on verso side of image in pen is "PDP-1 screen" and in pencil "962" which is underlined and "9" which is circled. Also written but erased is "3073" which was written in pencil.

Date

1962 ca.

Publisher

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Identifying Numbers

Other number 962

Dimensions

8 x 10 in.

Format

Photographic print

Category

Publicity photograph; Identification photograph

Subject

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC); PDP-1 (Computer)

Credit

Courtesy of Gwen Bell

Lot Number

X7413.2015