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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 77. Chapters: PDP-11, Programmed Data Processor, PDP-8, Dot matrix printer, PDP-7, LINC, Foonly, VT100, Star coupler, DECstation, Q-Bus, AlphaServer, DEC 7000/10000 AXP, DECserver, VAX 8000, MicroVAX, VAXstation, AlphaStation, DEC 3000 AXP, TURBOchannel, Rainbow 100, Digital Linear Tape, VAXft, LINC-8, VAX 4000, DEC 4000 AXP, DECpc AXP 150, VAX 6000, DECtape, Digital Storage Systems Interconnect, DEC Firefly, VAX 9000, Digital Personal Workstation, DECsystem, DEC Multia, DEC Professional, VT52, Massbus, DECmate, List of VAX computers, VAX-11, Firefly protocol, VAX 7000/10000, RK05, Unibus, DECtalk, LK201, IXP1200, RA90, VAXBI Bus, VT220, DEC GT40, Mass Storage Control Protocol, VT05, VAXmate, Itsy Pocket Computer, Flip Chip, Block-transfer instruction, VAXserver, VT420, VT180, LK421, PALcode, TU81, VT500, Jupiter project, DECSA, Synchronous Backplane Interconnect, VT103, Standard Drive Interconnect. Excerpt: The 12-bit PDP-8 was the first successful commercial minicomputer, produced by Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in the 1960s. DEC introduced it on 22 March 1965, and sold more than 50,000 systems, the most of any computer up to that date. It was the first widely sold computer in the DEC PDP series of computers (the PDP-5 was not originally intended to be a general-purpose computer). The chief engineer who designed the initial version of the PDP-8 was Edson de Castro, who later founded Data General. The earliest PDP-8 model (informally known as a "Straight-8") used diode-transistor logic, packaged on flip chip cards, and was about the size of a minibar-fridge. This was followed by the PDP-8/S, available in desktop and rack-mount models. By using a one-bit serial ALU implementation, the PDP-8/S was smaller, less expensive, but vastly slower than the original PDP-8. The only mass storage peripheral available for the PDP-8/S w...
