On-line PDP-8 House Web page
This web site is for individuals who
want to be taught concerning the PDP-8 minicomputer and for present PDP-8 customers
to get extra data on these machines. The PDP-8 was a essential early
mini pc
within the historical past of computing and lots of are nonetheless working as we speak performing
their authentic perform. The PDP-8 was used for industrial management, controlling
experiments, working companies, phrase processing, and lots of different makes use of.
This web site is a piece in progress so please
to make feedback or request what you wish to see. At
the underside of most pages is a hyperlink to contact me. I have
been concentrating on the power to run a PDP8 over the net. I believe
that’s working fairly properly. If you have not ever run a PDP8 particularly
if you have not used command line working methods the net documentation
will not be ample to function it like a professional however I’ve made it simple to
play a number of the video games.
Numerous bits on this web site are from Douglas
W. Jones FAQ’s The PDP-8 household of minicomputers had been constructed by Digital
Tools Company (DEC) between 1965 and 1990. It was the observe
on to the PDP-5 pc with some instruction set modifications.
By late 1973, the PDP-8
household was one of the best promoting pc on the planet. The PDP-8 has been described
because the model-T of the pc trade as a result of it was the primary pc
to be mass produced at a value that virtually anybody might afford (at the very least
with firm cash).
The PDP-8 is a 12 bit single accumulator machine which might handle
as much as 32K 12 bit phrases. It has 8 primary instructions
and the PDP-8/E executes them in 1.2 microsecond for easy directions
to 4 microsecond for advanced reminiscence reference directions. This
offers the machine a few .5 MIPS ranking. Though the pc
may be very gradual and reminiscence restricted by as we speak’s requirements it was fairly succesful
in its time.
For the reason that PDP-8 was a extra private machine than the bigger dearer
machines, it was widespread for taking part in with and numerous video games had been both
written for it or ported to it from even earlier machines.
More
game information.
Folks additionally wrote packages to play sound on the pdp8. The pdp8 did not require a elaborate sound card, solely an AM radio.
Sound information and samples.
These are the main machines I personal, click on on the image or hyperlinks under to search out
out extra about them.
Be happy to contact me, David Gesswein djg@pdp8online.com
with any questions, feedback on the net web site, or when you’ve got associated tools,
documentation, software program and so forth. you’re prepared to half with. I’m
focused on something PDP-8
associated, computer systems, peripherals used with them, DEC or third social gathering, or
documentation.
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