Title
TV display for PDP-6Catalog Number
102733799Type
Physical objectDescription
This unit was part of the PDP-6 system at Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL) spearheaded by John McCarthy and Lester D. "Les" Earnest . It is the only part of that system known to still exist. The object's top section is a backplane made by DEC. The middle section is a model 301 display controller by Computer Communications, Inc., and the bottom part is a radial multiplexor converter. The display controller has a property tag from the US Department of Energy/Lawrence Livermore Lab (DOE/LLL).Date
ca. 1967Manufacturer
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)Identifying Numbers
| Model number | CC301 | Model number for the display controller, printed on a label attached to the front |
| Other number | 00161876 | “Computer controller” found a green label |
| Other number | 14304201 | Attached to a tag on the back of the controller |
| Other number | 211312895920-02 | Found on the green label |
| Other number | 93.909.01 | Found on the top left corner of the 301 display controller |
| Other number | H911 | On a mounting panel |
| Part number | 728 | A part number associated with DEC equipment |
| Serial number | 784319931 | Handwritten |
Dimensions
overall: 69 in x 21 in x 28 inCategory
I/O/display/CRT
