Explore Collections Search the Collection Fellow Awards Core Magazine Special Projects

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.

 

Search DEC PDP-1 Collection

Result 61-70 of about 178
Ed Fredkin working on PDP-1
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
 Still Image, 1960 ca.
Eric Smith of the PDP-1 restoration team with DEC type 30 display test pattern
Computer History Museum
 Still Image, 2005-04
Expensive Desk Calculator
Digital Equipment Computer Users Society (DECUS)
 Text, 1963-01-02
Expensive Typewriter
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
 Text, 1972-08-01
Extend DDT
Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Inc. (BBN)
 Text, 1964-03-02
From left to right: Alan Kotok, Peter Samson and Stephen "Slug" Russell in front the Computer History Museum's restored PDP-1 computer system.
Computer History Museum
 Still Image, 2005-07
From left to right: Dick Best and Wally Wheaton working on the Memory Test Computer at MIT.
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
 Still Image
Front panel lamp and holder for the DEC PDP-1
Computer History Museum
 Still Image, 2004-09
Gordon Bell and the PDP-1
Computer History Museum. PDP-1 restoration team
 Moving Image, 2006-04-20
Gordon Bell in front of the restored DEC PDP-1
Computer History Museum
 Still Image, 2004-06