From magnetic tape and rare film to lab notebooks and business plans to early mainframes and source code, our collection is as diverse as the history of computing. It is a rich resource for everyone, comprising historical objects, documents, software titles, ephemera, and photographs and moving images.
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Playing Spacewar! at DEC PDP-1 at the AFIPS Fall Joint Computer Conference.
Still Image, Circa 1964
102652460
Eric Smith of the PDP-1 restoration team with DEC type 30 display test pattern
Computer History Museum
Still Image, 2005-04
102664939
Aligning the Soroban typewriter permutation bar during the Computer History Museum PDP-1 restoration project
Computer History Museum
Still Image, 2005-02-01
102663950
Test characters on Type 30 display as part of the DEC PDP-1 restoration project
Computer History Museum
Still Image, 2005-10
102663948
History - Ken Olsen, Charles Townes, and Peter Elias with PDP-1
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Still Image, ca. 1961
102631262
Evans and Sutherland LDS-1 with PDP-10 and scope - Bolt, Baranek and Newman, Cambridge
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Still image, 1969
102759103
Contact prints of PDP-1 and people working in the office
Still Image
102618927
User interacting with an early Computer Aided Design (CAD) program running on a PDP-1 computer
Still Image, Circa 1962
102652247
Harlan Anderson with a lamp constructed from a PDP-1 console panel
Still Image
102665752
PDP-1/B and miniature model railroad at University of Massachusetts
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Still image, 1968-11-19
102757910
Man at early Programmed Data Processor (PDP) island console with hand on paper tape reader
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Still image, ca. 1962
102749196
Man at early Programmed Data Processor (PDP) island console
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Still image, ca. 1962
102749206
Man at early Programmed Data Processor (PDP) island console
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Still image, ca. 1962
102749205
Man at early Programmed Data Processor (PDP) island console with paper tape and typewriter, rear view
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Still image, ca. 1962
102749194
Man at early Programmed Data Processor (PDP) island console with hand on paper tape punch
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Still image, ca. 1962
102749195
Computer History Museum PDP-1 restoration team members. From left to right: Joe Fredrick, Bob Lash, Lyle Bickley, Rafael Skodlar, and R. Tim Coslet
Computer History Museum
Still Image, 2004-06
102663951
PDP-1D-48 at Stanford University
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Still image, 1964-01-28
102753476
PDP-1C-33, University of Michigan
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Still image, 1964-03-02
102753512
VT02 panel shots with dark background
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Still image, 1969
102758384
PDP-1C-42 Yale
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
Still image, 1963-05-29
102753302