The PDP-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. The PDP-1 is the original hardware for playing history's first game on a minicomputer, Steve Russell's Spacewar!
PDP-1 exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California
System Building Blocks 1103 hex-inverter card
PDP-1 System Building Block #4106, circa 1963, with a US quarter – note that one transistor (yellow) has been replaced
PDP-1 Type 30 point-mode CRT display and console typewriter, with processor frame in background
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation, using the trademark Digital, was a major American company in the computer industry from the 1960s to the 1990s. The company was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. Olsen was president until he was forced to resign in 1992, after the company had gone into precipitous decline.
Assabet Woolen Mill, former headquarters of Digital Equipment Corporation from 1957 to 1992
DEC was headquartered at a former wool mill in Maynard, Massachusetts, from 1957 until 1992.
System Building Blocks (System Module) 1103 hex-inverter card (both sides)
PDP-1 System Building Block #4106, circa 1963 - note that one transistor (yellow) has been replaced
