Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1

[JimBentley]

With all this talk of XBOX 360s, Playstation 3s and Wiis, I can't be the only one to have noticed a glaring omission from the roster of state-of-the-art games machines vying for our attention - namely, the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1!! Its enormous 9KB of memory and astounding clock speed of 200KHz make the Konrad Zuse Z3 look like a crock of shit!

Look at this amazing list of KILLER APPLICATIONS:

Octal Print Subroutine
ER X-REF; FR 15AU
Fortran Compiler
Solitaire
ASCII II Tape Lister
New Mode Sequence Break Log
Space War 4.0 TS
Real Time Clock
TECO Text Editor & Corrector
Space War 4.0 TS (without starfield)

AND MANY MORE!!!

Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo are crapping themselves over this - they know that they just can't compete with the visceral thrill-ride provided by Octal Print Subroutine (and, to a slightly lesser extent, Binary Print Subroutine)! Believe me, the kids'll be going MAD for a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1 once they've seen ER X-REF; FR 15AU do its stuff!

Yes.

[Phil Reynolds]

With all this talk of XBOX 360s, Playstation 3s and Wiis, I can't be the only one to have noticed a glaring omission from the roster of state-of-the-art games machines vying for our attention - namely, the Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1!! Its enormous 9KB of memory and astounding clock speed of 200KHz make the Konrad Zuse Z3 look like a crock of shit!

Mock if you will; but without the PDP-1 we wouldn't have had the PDP-7, and without the PDP-7 we might never have had UNIX. And without UNIX we might never have had the World Wide Web.

And without the World Wide Web we wouldn't have C4C or Apterous.

Actually, yeah, the PDP-1 sucked.

[Charlie Reams]

New Mode Sequence Break Log

Julian Fell has asked me to say that he preferred the old one.