PDP-9

By admin , 15 December 2015
PDP-9
Description

The PDP-9 was a very popular, eighteen bit computer, with a cycle time of one microsecond. Over 430 were sold world-wide.

Sites in Australia included Government Aircraft Factory, Australian Iron and Steel, Melbourne University Physics Dept, Latrobe University and the Parkes Radio Telescope.

The PDP-9 was one of the first small computers to have an Operating System, initially based on DECtape, later disk. It was priced at $35,000 for 8K words (16K bytes) of memory and a high speed paper tape reader and punch.

Year First Manufactured
1968

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