Minicomputer (DEC PDP-8)
Minicomputador (DEC PDP-8)
- Date
- 1965 · confidence high
- Place
- Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- Edson de Castro and Gordon Bell (DEC)
- People
- 👤 C. Gordon Bell1934–2024👤 Edson de Castro1938–2024
- Field
- Knowledge & symbols
What it is
Refrigerator-sized computer priced at $18,000, affordable for laboratories, factories and university departments. It democratised direct access to the computer.
What it led to
- Hacker culture and interactive computing in universities
- Unix (written on a PDP-7 and PDP-11) and interactive programming
- The path towards the personal computer