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DEC PDP-1 Collection

DEC PDP-1

The PDP-1 archive contains documents, photos, movies and music relating to Digital Equipment Corporation's groundbreaking PDP-1 computer. The launch of the PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) computer in 1959 marked a radical shift in the philosophy of computer design: it was the first commercial computer that focused on interaction with the user rather than the efficient use of computer cycles. It was also Digital Equipment Corporation's first computer.

 

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Students interacting with the PDP-1 via its Soroban console typewriter
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
 Still Image, 1963 ca.
A time-shared computer for real-time information processing
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
 Text, 1963
Alan Kotok writes a program using DDT on a Soroban typewriter during the Computer History Museum PDP-1 restoration project
Computer History Museum. PDP-1 restoration team
 Moving Image, 2005-07
Alan Kotok, Steve Russell, Martin "Shag" Graetz play Spacewar! at the Computer Museum
Computer History Museum
 Still Image, 1983-03-27
Aligning the Soroban typewriter permutation bar during the Computer History Museum PDP-1 restoration project
Computer History Museum
 Still Image, 2005-02-01
Artist rendering of PDP-1 front panel with paper tape reader
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
 Still Image, 1963-10-04
Ben Gurley, designer for the PDP-1 computer, at picnic
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
 Still Image, 1961 ca.
Ben Gurley, lead designer of the PDP-1
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
 Still Image, 1961 ca.
Bob Savelle checks out a PDP-1 CRT
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
 Still Image, 1963 ca.
Budgets from July to December 1957
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
 Text, 1957