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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: 67. Chapters: PDP-8, CDC 6600, GE-600 series, PDP-1, PDP-7, GE-200 series, TX-2, TX-0, Elliott 803, English Electric KDF8, Route Reference Computer, DRTE Computer, Ferranti Orion, Manchester computers, ASC-15, Ferranti Sirius, D-17B, ReserVec, Ferranti-Packard 6000, MOBIDIC, English Electric KDF9, Transistor computer, Harwell CADET, ICT 1301, CDC 3000, Metrovick 950, UNIVAC 418, Olivetti Elea, TRADIC, CDC 1604, PDP-6, SDS 930, Honeywell 200, UNIVAC LARC, UNIVAC III, Bendix G-20, Honeywell 800, ILLIAC II, List of transistorized computers, NCR 315, EMIDEC 1100, CDC 160A, CER-22, Mailufterl, UNIVAC 1107, Electrologica X1, Datasaab D2, Flip Chip, Model 109, CDC 6400, MANIAC III, CAB500, GE-400 series, NCR 304, MAGSTEC. 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 was the DF32 disk. Later systems (the PDP-8/I and /L, the PDP-8/E, /F, and /M, and the PDP-8/A) returned to a faster, fully-parallel implementation but used much less-expensive TTL MSI logi...
