Object Details
- Digital Equipment Corporation
- Description
- Digital Equipment Corporation made several models of its successful PDP-8 minicomputer (for a more expensive, earlier version of the machine see 1989.0521.02), This is the relatively small, light, and inexpensive PDP-8L. It came in a metal box with orange writing and switches. This example was owned by Jonathan Titus, who took it as inspiration for his design the Mark-8 minicomputer, once of the first computers to use microprocessors.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Jonathan A. Titus
- ca 1971
- ID Number
- 1991.0891.01
- catalog number
- 1991.0891.01
- accession number
- 1991.0891
- Object Name
- Minicomputer
- Physical Description
- metal (overall material)
- plastic (overall material)
- Measurements
- overall: 8 3/4 in x 19 in x 21 in; 22.225 cm x 48.26 cm x 53.34 cm
- place made
- United States: Massachusetts, Maynard
- See more items in
- Medicine and Science: Computers
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1104409
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746a9-660d-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
