PDP-6
PDP-6, (Programmed Data Processor-6)
DEC's first 36-bit [5] personal mainframe computer developed and manufactured from 1963, and shipped since 1964 [6], influential for the later PDP-10 with almost identical instruction sets. Addressing remained 18-bit, as in earlier DEC machines, allowing for a 256 Kiword main magnetic core memory, optionally with 16 words of fast memory constructed from discrete transistor flip-flops [7]. Output could be displayed on a DEC 340 display [8] [9] [10] [11] [12].
Already supporting Time-sharing, the operating system used was an early version of what later became TOPS-10, and several sites made custom versions of the system, available as source code. The PDP-6 with serial number 2 was donated to MIT's [13] Project MAC, where it was used to develop the ITS operating system. Richard Greenblatt et al. developed the Mac Hack VI chess program entirely in MIDAS, the PDP-6 macro assembler.
Photos
Bell and Kotok
Gordon Bell and Alan Kotok at PDP-6 in 1964 [14]
Robert Q
First tournament game by a computer, Carl Wagner (2190) - Robert Q, January 21, 1967 [15]
Allen Moulton and R. William Gosper operating "Robert Q" on a PDP-6 [16]
See also
- HAKMEM 169 to count the ones in a PDP-6/PDP-10 36-bit word
- HAKMEM 175 by Bill Gosper for Subsets with equal Cardinality
- IBM 7090
- Honeywell 6000
- Mac Hack VI
- PDP-1
- PDP-8
- PDP-10
- PDP-11
External Links
- PDP-6 from Wikipedia
- Programmed Data Processor from Wikipedia
- PDP-6 by Ed Thelen
- 36-bit Timeline from The Computer History Museum
- archive.computerhistory.org - /resources/still-image/DEC/PDP-6/ from The Computer History Museum
- archive.computerhistory.org - /resources/text/DEC/pdp-6/ from The Computer History Museum
- PDP-6 arithmetic processor 166 : instruction manual. Volume 1 from The Computer History Museum
- /pdf/dec/pdp6 from bitsavers.org
- Moby Memory by Lawrence J. Krakauer
- Bits by Lawrence J. Krakauer
- DSpace@MIT : PDP-6 LISP
- DSpace@MIT : Incorporating MIDAS Routines into PDP-6 LISP
- Digital Equipment Corp PDP-6 1964
References
- ↑ Bits by Lawrence J. Krakauer
- ↑ PDP-6 Circuit Instruction Manual, © 1966, Digital Equipment Corporation (pdf)
- ↑ PDP-6 Details from The Computer History Museum
- ↑ /resources/still-image/DEC/PDP-6/ from The Computer History Museum
- ↑ Moby Memory by Lawrence J. Krakauer
- ↑ PDP-6 Price List, February 1, 1964 (pdf)
- ↑ PDP-6 from Wikipedia
- ↑ I resign by Lawrence J. Krakauer
- ↑ Chess stories by Lawrence J. Krakauer
- ↑ Image of DEC 340 at A Critical History of Computer Graphics and Animation | Section 3: The industry evolves
- ↑ History of Australian Computer Museum Society WA | PDP-6
- ↑ James Gerard Fiasconaro (1970). A Computer-Controlled Graphical Display Processor. Project MAC, MIT, pdf
- ↑ Mac Hack from Wikipedia
- ↑ PDP-6 with Gordon Bell and Alan Kotok from The Computer History Museum, PDP-6 from Wikipedia
- ↑ MIT Computer Loses to Human in Chess. Sun Journal (Lewiston), January 23, 1967, Google News
- ↑ AP :: Images :: Search Results :: Carl Wagner, 1967, MIT Chess
