Artifact Details

Description

This set of photos includes images of the PDP-10 (KL-10) delivered to several education institutions and a TSS/8 system at Costa Mesa High School.

PDP-10 installations were at the Costa Mesa School District, UC Berkeley Molecular Biology Department, and Stanford's Artificial Intelligence Lab (SAIL).

The photos include images of the PDP-10 in use at SAIL by Artificial Intelligence pioneers John McCarthy and Les Earnest, as well as Gareth Loy using the PDP-10 to create a musical score. Images include shots of the Stanford Cart, Stanford Arm, and Orm robots.

Date

1976

Publisher

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)

Place of Publication

Costa Mesa, CA, USA; Stanford, CA, USA; Berkeley, CA, USA

Identifying Numbers

File number

7982

DEC identification number

Format

Negative

Category

Publicity photographs; Snapshot

Collection Title

Digital Equipment Corporation records

Series Title

Still images: Negatives

Credit

Gift of Hewlett-Packard Company

Lot Number

X2675.2004