Artifact Details

Title

30th Anniversary of the DEC PDP-1 Panel

Catalog Number

102664307

Type

Moving Image

Description

This panel was conducted on November 29th, 1990 at the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in Massachusetts to mark the 30th anniversary of the creation of the PDP-1 minicomputer.

Tape 1:
John T. “Jack” Gilmore, Jr. provides the opening remarks.
Steven Levy, who had then recently published his book Hackers, moderated the panel of key MIT professors and student “hackers” associated with the PDP-1.
Jack B. Dennis speaks beginning at the 5:07 mark.
Edward “Ed” Fredkin speaks at 16:20.
Stephen “Slug” Russell speaks at 25:28.
J. Martin “Shag” Graetz speaks at 31:55.
David Gross speaks at 43:33.
General discussion at 58:15.

Tape 2:
The tape begins with Marvin Minsky’s recollections about the PDP-1.
John McCarthy speaks at 5:25.
Richard Greenblatt speaks at 8:15.
John McCarthy speaks again at 9:48.
Ted Johnson speaks at 12:04.
Edward “Ed” Fredkin speaks at 18:40.
General discussion at 19:35.
Dan Murphy speaks at 24:50.

Date

1990-11-29

Publisher

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Identifying Numbers

Deprecated CHM identification number	102664308	Barcode applied to second cassette in item
Other number	95-007/18/1
Other number	VT 425.91

Duration

00:58:38

Dimensions

114,001 KB

Format

Mini-DV

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