Pdp

Minicomputers

Models

1 — The PDP-1 occupies a paradoxical place in DEC’s lineup: branded a “largescale system” alongside the PDP-6 and PDP-10, it differed from the company’s later mini and…
10 — The PDP-10 stood as a high-performance system built around a 36-bit word architecture, capable of sustaining a throughput of one million full words per second across both…
11/70 — The PDP-11/70 represented a critical inflection point in DIGITAL’s strategy for the PDP-11 line, emerging from an internal crossroads: whether to brute-force the existing…
8 — The PDP-8 established a new threshold in cost and scale for general-purpose computing, targeting users priced out of larger systems.
8/e — The PDP-8/e was announced in July as a cost-reduced successor to the PDP-8/I and PDP-8/L, which it was intended to replace.