PDP-8
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The PDP-8 is a family of 12-bit minicomputers that was produced by Digital Equipment Corporation. Launched in 1965, it was the first minicomputer to sell for under $20,000, and the $25,000 mark for a
A PDP-8 on display at The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley, England. This example is from the first generation of PDP-8s, built with discrete transistors and later known as the Straight 8.
An open PDP-8/E with its logic modules behind the front panel and one dual TU56 DECtape drive at the top
A "Straight-8" running at the Stuttgart Computer Museum
PDP-8/e at the Living Computers Museum
PDP-11
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The PDP-11 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers originally sold by Digital Equipment Corporation from 1970 into the late 1990s, one of a set of products in the Programmed Data Processor series. In tota
PDP-8
…The PDP-12 is an offshoot of the PDP-8 with a processor that can run programs for the PDP-8 and LINC systems. The successor to the PDP-8 line is the PDP-11, which featured a much more complete instruction set and was not backward compatible. The earliest PDP-8 model, later informally known as a "Straight-8…
A PDP-11/40 CPU is at the bottom, with a TU56 dual DECtape drive installed above it.
This PDP-11/70 system included two nine-track tape drives, two disk drives, a high speed line printer, a DECwriter dot-matrix keyboard printing terminal and a cathode ray tube terminal, all installed in a climate-controlled machine room.
PDP-11/03 (top right)
Q-Bus board with LSI-11/2 CPU