Boeing’s PDP-7a

Boeing News November 14, 1968 In November 1968, Boeing engineers demonstrated to Brigadier General Mahlon E. Gates, Commanding General of the Army’s Sentinel Logistics Command, a hybrid computing system built around a DEC PDP-7A and a Type 340 graphics display. The PDP-7A functioned as an interactive front-end processor, handling light-pen input and real-time display...