Presentation by Jessica Chapman

PDP-11

In 1960 a hardware engineer named Ben Gurley was hired to make DIGITAL's first computer. Three and a half months later, the prototype Programmed Data Processor-1 (PDP-1) was finished. After he made this computer, they upgraded it and changed it and made more every time they did that. That is how we got to the Programmed Data Processor-11 (PDP-11)

History

The PDP -11 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers sold by Digital Equipment Corporation from 1970 into the 1990s, one of the most successful computers in the PDP series. It was used as a standard minicomputer for general-purpose computing, like timesharing, scientific, educational, medical, or business computing. Also for real-time process control and factory automation. The computer was built as a response to the introduction of the Data General NOVA. In the 1970s they sold over 170,000 computers.

What was it for?

There are many different models for the PDP-11. Such as the Unibus models, Q-bus models, models without standard bus, models that were planned but never introduced, special purpose vision, and unauthorized clones. The PDP -11 had many operating systems and peripherals that were available for them.

Models

Works Cited

• http://www.pdp11.de/english/seite2.htm• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-11• http://

williambader.com/museum/vax/pdphistory.html