PDP-10
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Digital Equipment Corporation 's PDP-10, later marketed as the DECsystem-10, is a mainframe computer family manufactured from 1966, delivered from December 1967, and discontinued in 1983. 1970s models
Working DEC KI-10 System formerly at Living Computers: Museum + Labs
Flip-Chip module from a DEC KA10, containing 9 transistors, 1971
Quick-latch memory-bus terminator, used on KI10, 1973
KL10 wire-wrap CPU backplane
Colossal Cave Adventure
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Colossal Cave Adventure is a text-based adventure game, released in 1976 by Will Crowther for the PDP-10 mainframe computer. It was expanded upon in 1977 by Don Woods. In the game, the player explores
PDP-10
…size of the PDP-6 and PDP-10 was influenced by the programming convenience of having 2 LISP pointers, each 18 bits, in one word. Will Crowther created Adventure, the prototypical computer adventure game, for a PDP-10. Don Daglow created the first computer baseball game (1971) and Dungeon (1975), the first…
Colossal Cave Adventure running on a PDP-11/34 with a video display terminal, showing the point system
William Crowther in 2012
Teleprinter computer terminal
C version of the game on an Osborne 1 computer circa 1982