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LINC computer screencaps.

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🎄💾🗓️ Day 4: Retrocomputing Advent Calendar - The DEC PDP-11! 🎄💾🗓️

Released by Digital Equipment Corporation in 1970, the PDP-11 was a 16-bit minicomputer known for its orthogonal instruction set, allowing flexible and efficient programming. It introduced a Unibus architecture, which streamlined data communication and helped revolutionize computer design, making hardware design more modular and scalable. The PDP-11 was important in developing operating systems, including the early versions of UNIX. The PDP-11 was the hardware foundation for developing the C programming language and early UNIX systems. It supported multiple operating systems like RT-11, RSX-11, and UNIX, which directly shaped modern OS design principles. With over 600,000 units sold, the PDP-11 is celebrated as one of its era's most versatile and influential "minicomputers".

Check out the wikipedia page for some great history, photos (pictured here), and more -

And here's a story from Adafruit team member, Bill!

The DEC PDP-11 was the one of the first computers I ever programmed. That program was 'written' with a soldering iron.

I was an art student at the time, but spending most of my time in the engineering labs. There was a PDP-11-34 in the automation lab connected to an X-ray spectroscopy machine. Starting up the machine required toggling in a bootstrap loader via the front panel. This was a tedious process. So we ordered a diode-array boot ROM which had enough space to program 32 sixteen bit instructions.

Each instruction in the boot sequence needed to be broken down into binary (very straightforward with the PDP-11 instruction set). For each binary '1', a diode needed to be soldered into the array. The space was left empty for each '0'. 32 sixteen bit instructions was more than sufficient to load a secondary bootstrap from the floppy disk to launch the RT-11 operating system. So now it was possible to boot the system with just the push of a button.

I worked with a number DEC PDP-11/LSI-11 systems over the years. I still keep an LSI-11-23 system around for sentimental reasons.

Have first computer memories? Post’em up in the comments, or post yours on socialz’ and tag them #firstcomputer #retrocomputing – See you back here tomorrow!

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15 DEC 2006 | Fueled By Ramen • Fall Out Boy: Holiday Greeting

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PDP-8 Computer Art – David Gesswein

And is that @regretsretrotech talking to David in one of those photos?

VCF East XIX

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What if HTTYD dragon types were in WOF?

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Amyl and the Sniffers (c) Jamie Wdziekonski

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"Kopa 1000" from 1983, a Slovenian rebranded version of the VT100.

From the Slovenian Computer History Museum

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Kid: little 🤏, aura: MASSIVE ❤️

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Dec - F3LC4T

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decorations .

🕯️୨♡୧ ִ° ⋆ ୭ ✧ ˚. ᵎᵎ 🏹

☆ 🖇️ 𖥻 ＜꒱ ᓚᘏᗢ : 🗯 ꗃ

♡₊˚ 🦢・₊𓍢ִ໋🌷͙֒✧˚.🎀༘⋆ 💋🕯യ₊⋆ 💌 ﹪

𖢷 ۪ ࣪ ﹙☆﹚ ࣪ ִ ‹3 ⋆ ˚｡⋆୨♡୧⋆ ˚｡⋆

୭ 🧷 ✧ ˚. ᵎᵎ 🎀 ૮₍˶ •. • ⑅₎ა ♡

๋࣭ ⭑ ☾⋆｡𖦹 °✩

bios .

✶ . ࣪ ׅ 04 ' 🪐

☆ “we were born to die”☆

— text ਏਓ

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𖤐 𓈒࣪ ᭡ ˖ name ! prns

𝘀𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘄𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘀𝗲 𝘦𝘺𝘦𝘴 : ?! 𖦹︎ ִֶָ ࣪ ៹ ☄️

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𖤐 𓈒࣪ ᭡ ˖ name ! mbti

𝘪'𝘮 𝗼𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝗱𝗲 : % ‹𝟹 ִֶָ ࣪ ៹ 🎀

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⋆˚⊹ strawberries - cigarettes

🎧🎀 ˖ ࣪ 𝇋♡︎𝇌 ׂ archive ׄ ׅ ✿

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★ ! 𝟿𝟽 · jjk

— 🎧 !! 𝑠𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑛

Extra

dec for nickname

𖦁ׅ ࣪ ׂ name ៵ 🐇 ࣪ ִֶָ ⋆

𓍢 ִ ໋🌷֒𖹭 ִֶָ 𖥔 ࣪˖

𓏲 ˖. ♡̷̸ your name " 𓂃 !

⊹ ִֶָ𓏲࣪𖹭

🥛 ˖ ࣪ ‹ your name 🥠 ⁺˖ ⸝⸝

🖇·˚ ༘ ┊͙

« ֪ ׅ ֹ =͟͞ ♡ 🩰🌷 ꪆ୧ ₊

🎂 ˖ ࣪ ‹ your name ☁️⁺˖ ⸝⸝

‧₊˚ ☁️⋅ name ₊˚ෆ

✩ ᵕ̈ ིྀ ! name •˙ 🦢 ⌗ ⊱

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Operator with VAX 11/780 computer. Via Boston Public Library.

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Every once in a while we get a piece that clearly has some awesome history behind it

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15 DEC 2017 | Spotify • Fall Out Boy: 2017 Year in Review

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