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 PDP-1 exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California | |
| Developer | Digital Equipment Corporation |
|---|---|
| Product family | Programmed Data Processor |
| Type | Minicomputer |
| Release date | 1959 |
| Introductory price | US$120,000 (equivalent to $1,254,247 in 2023) |
| Discontinued | 1969 |
| Units shipped | 53 |
| Media | Punched tape |
| Operating system | BBN Time-Sharing System, Stanford Time Sharing System;[1] most software, including Spacewar!, uses no operating system |
| CPU | @ 187 kHz |
| Memory | 4K words (9.2 KB) magnetic-core memory |
| Display | Type 30 CRT |
| Platform | DEC 18-bit |
| Mass | 730 kg (1,600 lb) |
| Predecessor | TX-0 and TX-2 |
| Successor | PDP-4 |
The PDP-1 (Programmed Data Processor-1) is the first computer in Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP series and was first produced in 1959. It is famous for being the most important computer in the creation of hacker culture at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bolt, Beranek and Newman and elsewhere.[2] The PDP-1 is the original hardware for playing history's first game on a minicomputer, Steve Russell's Spacewar![3]
- ^ "Early Computers at Stanford". Stanford University. February 6, 2022 [1997-08-15]. Retrieved July 6, 2024.
- ^ "Computer History Museum PDP-1 Restoration Project – Introduction". Computer History Museum. Archived from the original on March 16, 2022. Retrieved April 6, 2011.
- ^ "1960: DEC PDP-1 Precursor to the Minicomputer". CED Magic. Archived from the original on January 3, 2022. Retrieved December 4, 2008.