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The Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-7

DEC PDP-7
The Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-7
The Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-7 [produced 1964-69] like the one in Columbia University's Department of Electrical Engineering in the early-mid 1970s. This photo is of machine #115 that was shipped to Oslo University in 1966 and (as of January 2009) owned by Tore Sinding Bekkedal. The PDP-7 is famous as the machine at Bell Labs where Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson developed the UNIX operating system and the C programming language. Right: the Teletype console terminal, commonly shipped with minicomputers in the 1960s and 70s.

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Columbia University Computing History Frank da Cruz / [email protected] This page created: January 2009 Revised: 3 April 2021