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  1. Bits by Lawrence J. Krakauer↩︎
  2. PDP-6 Circuit Instruction Manual, © 1966, Digital Equipment Corporation (pdf)↩︎
  3. PDP-6 Details from The Computer History Museum↩︎
  4. /resources/still-image/DEC/PDP-6/ from The Computer History Museum↩︎

PDP-6, (Programmed Data Processor-6)
DEC's first 36-bit 1 personal mainframe computer developed and manufactured from 1963, and shipped since 1964 2, influential for the later PDP-10 with almost identical instruction sets. Addressing remained 18-bit, as in earlier DEC machines, allowing for a 256 Kiword main magnetic core memory, optionally with 16 words of fast memory constructed from discrete transistor flip-flops 3. Output could be displayed on a DEC 340 display 4 5 6 7 8.

Already supporting Time-sharing, the operating system used was an early version of what later became TOPS-10, and several sites made custom versions of the system, available as source code. The PDP-6 with serial number 2 was donated to MIT's 9 Project MAC, where it was used to develop the ITS operating system. Richard Greenblatt et al. developed the Mac Hack VI chess program entirely in MIDAS, the PDP-6 macro assembler.

Contents
  1. Photos
    1. Bell and Kotok
    2. Robert Q
  2. See also
  3. External Links
  4. References

Photos

Bell and Kotok

Gordon Bell and Alan Kotok at PDP-6 in 1964 10

Robert Q

First tournament game by a computer, Carl Wagner (2190) - Robert Q, January 21, 1967 11 Allen Moulton and R. William Gosper operating "Robert Q" on a PDP-6 12

See also

References

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  1. Moby Memory by Lawrence J. Krakauer↩︎

  2. PDP-6 Price List, February 1, 1964 (pdf)↩︎

  3. PDP-6 from Wikipedia↩︎

  4. I resign by Lawrence J. Krakauer↩︎

  5. Chess stories by Lawrence J. Krakauer↩︎

  6. Image of DEC 340 at A Critical History of Computer Graphics and Animation | Section 3: The industry evolves↩︎

  7. History of Australian Computer Museum Society WA | PDP-6↩︎

  8. James Gerard Fiasconaro (1970). A Computer-Controlled Graphical Display Processor. Project MAC, MIT, pdf↩︎

  9. Mac Hack from Wikipedia↩︎

  10. PDP-6 with Gordon Bell and Alan Kotok from The Computer History Museum, PDP-6 from Wikipedia↩︎

  11. MIT Computer Loses to Human in Chess. Sun Journal (Lewiston), January 23, 1967, Google News↩︎

  12. AP :: Images :: Search Results :: Carl Wagner, 1967, MIT Chess↩︎

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