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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."
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."
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
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.
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.
"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.