Programmed Data Processor
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Programmed Data Processor, referred to by some customers, media and authors as "Programmable Data Processor," is a term used by the Digital Equipment Corporation from 1957 to 1990 for several lines of
PDP-1
PDP-6
PDP-7
PDP-8/e
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
Programmed Data Processor
…machines. Digital never made a PDP-20, although the term was sometimes used for a PDP-10 running TOPS-20 (officially known as a DECSYSTEM-20). Several unlicensed clones of the PDP-11. TOAD-1 and TOAD-2, Foonly, and Systems Concepts PDP-10/DECSYSTEM-20-compatible machines…
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