Online PDP-8 Home Page

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If you have problems or site is slow try the mirror site at http://highgate.comm.sfu.ca/~djg/htdocs/index.shtmlThis site is for people whowish to learn about the PDP-8 minicomputer and for current PDP-8 usersto get more information on these machines. The PDP-8 was a important earlymini computerin the history of computing and many are still running today performingtheir original function. The PDP-8 was used for industrial control, controllingexperiments, running businesses, word processing, and many other uses.This site is a work in progress so pleaseto make comments or request what you would like to see. Atthe bottom of most pages is a link to contact me. Ihavebeen concentrating on the ability to run a PDP8 over the web. I thinkthat is working pretty well. If you haven't ever run a PDP8 especiallyif you haven't used command line operating systems the online documentationmay not be sufficient to operate it like a pro but I have made it easy to play some of the games.The main contents of this site are:Archive of software Also see documentationlink above, it has software alsoVarious bits on this site are from DouglasW. Jones FAQ's The PDP-8 family of minicomputers were built by DigitalEquipment Corporation (DEC) between 1965 and 1990. It was the followon to the PDP-5 computer with some instruction set changes.By late 1973, the PDP-8 family was the best selling computer in the world. The PDP-8 has been describedas the model-T of the computer industry because it was the first computerto be mass produced at a cost that just about anyone could afford (at leastwith company money).The PDP-8 is a 12 bit single accumulator machine which can addressup to 32K 12 bit words. It has 8 basic instructionsand the PDP-8/E executes them in 1.2 microsecond for simple instructionsto 4 microsecond for complex memory reference instructions. Thisgives the machine about a .5 MIPS rating. Although the computeris very slow and memory limited by today's standards it was quite capablein its time.Since the PDP-8 was a more personal machine than the larger more expensivemachines, it was popular for playing with and various games were eitherwritten for it or ported to it from even earlier machines. Moregame information.People also wrote programs to play sound on the pdp8. The pdp8 didn't require a fancy sound card, only an AM radio.Sound information and samples.These are the major machines I own, click on the picture or links below to findout more about them.Big version of above pictureProcessorsFirst PDP-8 (Straight 8)LINC EIGHT (PDP-8 & LINC)PDP-8/E and PDP-8/MPDP-8/IMy cat running my PDP-8/IVT78 PDP-8Mass storageRK05 hard disk driveDF32/DS32 hard disk driveRX02 floppy disk driveTU56 DECtape drivePC04 paper tape reader/punchTU10 1/2" tape driveOtherVR14 displayAX08 Laboratory PeripheralASR 33 TeletypeCalcomp 563 PlotterPT08 Teletype ControlR Series Discrete Transistor LogicM Series TTL LogicG Series Special FunctionsW Series Interface BoardsA Series Analog BoardsTektronix 4010-1 Storage TerminalShowsTrenton Computer Festival 2005Vintage Computer Festival 3.0 (2006)VCF 4.0 (2007)VCF 5.0 (2008)VCF 6.0 (2009) (not held in 2010)VCF 7.0 (2011)VCF 8.0 (2012)TCF 2013VCF 9.1 (2014)VCF 10.0 (2015)VCF 11 (2016)Feel free to contact me, David Gesswein djg@pdp8online.comwith any questions, comments on the web site, or if you have related equipment,documentation, software etc. you are willing to part with. I am interested in anything PDP-8related, computers, peripherals used with them, DEC or third party, ordocumentation. PDP-8 Home Page PDP-8 Site Map PDP-8 Site Search Mirror site if this site is slow highgate.comm.sfu.ca

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