PDP-10

computer of

Digital Equipment Corporation

mention

Oral History Panel on the Development and Promotion of the Intel 8008 Microprocessor (archive.computerhistory.org) Stan, tell us how the 8008 began.

operating systems

PL/M

PL/M originally ran on large PDP-10 mainframe computers that would output the final machine language code on punch tape which would then be fed into an programmable ROM burner and then the ROMs would be transferred to the target machine.

random

Courage! I have shown it for years; think you I shall lose it at the moment when my sufferings are to end? Marie Antoinetter esponding to the priest who had accompanied her to the foot of the guillotine, who had whispered, “Courage, madame! Now is the time for courage.” Quoted in Women of Beauty and Heroism (1859) by Frank B. Goodrich, p. 301.

successor of

PDP-6

tagged

During the summer and autumn of 1971, I was part of a small group of programmers who were developing a time-sharing system called TENEX that ran on Digital PDP-10 computers. We were supporting a larger group working on natural language. Earlier, I had worked on the Network Control Protocol (NCP) for TENEX and network programs such as an experimental file transfer program called CPYNET.

tags

mainframe computer

video game

Colossal Cave Adventure

Wikidata

https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1568240

Wikipedia

PDP-10 (Wikipedia) Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)’s PDP-10, later marketed as the DECsystem-10, is a mainframe computer family manufactured beginning in 1966 and discontinued in 1983. 1970s models and beyond were marketed under the DECsystem-10 name, especially as the TOPS-10 operating system became widely used.