Image of PDP-8 . Doug Letterman from Oakland, CA, CC BY 2.0

1969 – PDP-8 Computer System

  • The Physics Department purchases PDP-8.
  • The PDP-8 has 81K of memory and can support 4 simultaneous users.
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Image: Example of PDP-8.  Credit: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DEC_PDP_8e.jpg
Stahlkocher, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons