Raytheon BBN
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Raytheon BBN is an American research and development company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.
Dilution refrigerator at BBN Technologies, used to create superconducting quantum computing devices
Dr. Talib Hussain, senior scientist at BBN Technologies, looks over the shoulder of a recruit during a training session on the Virtual Environments for Ship and Shore Experiential Learning system at Recruit Training Command.
The Internet, circa 1985. BBN built and operated the MILNET, ARPANET, SATNET, and Wideband networks
PDP-1
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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