DEC PDP-1
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| DEC PDP-1 | |
| Image:SystemPicture.jpg | |
| Manufacturer: | Digital Equipment Corporation |
| Alternate Names: | PDP-1 |
| Announced: | 1959 |
| Release date: | JP: N/A NA: date/month in text/1959 EU: N/A AU: N/A |
| Initial Price: | JP: N/A NA: $120,000 (1960) EU: N/A AU: N/A |
| Discontinued: | date discontinued |
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Description of Hardware
The PDP-1 was never intended to be a gaming platform. This aside, it is the PDP-1 which is historically the first platform to have any commercial access also had the first commercial game written for it: Spacewar!.
Hardware Specifications
Taken from The Computer History Museum's Restoration Project:
- Memory type: Magnetic coincident-core
- Memory size: 4K words (up to 16K)
- Word length: 18-bit
- Add time: 100,000 add/s (5 us cycle time - 200 kHz)
- Instruction set: 28 single-address instructions
- I/O: typewriter, paper tape, CRT, light pen, magnetic tape, precision display scope, others
- Software: Diagnostics, assembler, debugger, editor, graphics, games, music, others
- Number produced: approx. 50
- Power: 115 VAC, 60 Hz
- Size: 8’ x 2’ x 6’ (height, width, depth)
- Weight: Approx. 1,200 lbs
Hardware Revisions
Games
There is only one game creditted as being commercially available on the PDP-1 and that is Spacewar!.
Peripherals
Emulation
A simulation (not strictly emulation) of the Spacewar! game is available at Oversigma.
