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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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Gordon Bell, third from left, and Alan Kotok, fourth from left, with unidentified people next to the DEC PDP-6
Still Image
Gordon's personal view of personal computing before the PC
Vintage Computer Society
 Text, 1998-09-27
Harlan Anderson
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
 Still Image, 1960 ca.
Harlan Anderson with a lamp constructed from a PDP-1 console panel
Still Image
IBM 7090 Data Processing System
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)
 Still Image, 1960 ca.
Interior of PDP-1 computer showing rows of DEC System Building Blocks
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
 Still Image, 1961 ca.
Invitation to a presentation of a PDP computer to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Electrical Engineering Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
 Text, 1961-11-06
J. S. Bach, The Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1, first prelude (C major), BWV 846 being played on DEC PDP-1
Computer History Museum
 Sound recording, 2005
J. S. Bach, Two-part Invention No. 1 (C major), BWV 772 being played on DEC PDP-1
Computer History Museum
 Audio, 2005
J.S. Bach, Organ Concerto No. 1 in G Major, 3rd movement, BWV 592 being played on DEC PDP-1
Computer History Museum
 Sound recording, 2005