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Back in the day these were high end machines. Manufactured by DEC aka Digital Equipment corporation (or digital) - PDP is a three letter acronym (TLA) for 'programmable data processor' -

Doug Scott of Arrow Plastics sent in a set of photos of a machine made up of an assortment of vintage kit, including a 1993 Maxtor RD54 hard disk, a DEC PDP11/83 and the case and serial cards from a 11/73 - "the oldest bits in the box, which go back to about 1987."

 

"The best bit about it," says Doug, "is that it all still works and is being used to print labels as we migrated everything else about 3 years ago."

Pavl Zachary answers questions about the PDP 11/40

Doug Scott of Arrow Plastics' composite vintage label printer is made up of bits including a 1993 Maxtor RD54 hard disk, a DEC PDP11/83 and the case and serial cards from a 11/73 - "the oldest bits in the box, which go back to about 1987."

DEC PDP-11 software on paper tape

DEC PDP-11 software on paper tape

Stumbled upon some old photos of 1970s computer equipment today at work (thanks to whoever took the photos all those years ago).

 

This is a Digital Equipment Corporation declab 11/40 computer system including a laboratory peripheral system and pdp 11/40

DEC PDP-11 software on paper tape

DEC PDP-11 software on paper tape

DEC PDP-11 software on paper tape

DEC PDP-11 software on paper tape

BA23 back plane of a Digital PDP 11/23 that I had kicking around the garage for a few years but has now since been given away. This has a massive 64K RAM, six serial ports and two RL02 10MB Disks.

Pavl Zachary's PDP 11/40 display

This is a DEG and is used to control one of the large green Air Traffic Control radar screens.

My friend Zach found this while going through old stuff a few years back. From the date I wasn't yet 13 at the time. BASIC language on a DEC PDP-11/23, I think, which my school had recently purchased.

 

Zach has said he will send me the whole printout.

 

I also remember learning FORTRAN on that machine.

DEC PDP-11 software on paper tape

"terminals and communications handbook" and "PDP11 peripherals handbook"

Real UNIX Magazine Day@Japan

The paper in Bay City, MI, is still running a PDP11 to handle their classified advertising. Go figure.

Karl ponders *all* of the toggle switches...

DEC PDP-11 software on paper tape

This is actually in color, but I scanned it on a B/W scanner :(

Walton RARE playback unit. This uses 2 DAT drives to play back recorded air traffic radar around London Heathrow

Calcolatore Digital PDP11/34 con periferiche (terminali scriventi, unità a nastro magnetico, unità a disco, plotter, lettore di schede perforate).

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