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Browse PDP Planet's Image Gallery
Step back into time and browse through photos of historic mainframes and minicomputers. |
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Welcome to the PDP Planet Community!
We encourage enthusiasts at all levels of experience to apply for accounts on the 2065 and the Toad-1 and to visit the PDP Planet Forums to share ideas and ask questions. |
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Read PDP Planet
Restoration Stories
The restoration stories are taken from excerpts of progress reports. Enjoy! |
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A resource for computer history.
PDP Planet is a portal into the Paul Allen collection of Digital Equipment Corporation mainframes and minicomputers, where pride of place is given to two PDP-10 systems (a 2065 running the Tops-10 operating system, and a 1090 scheduled to be brought up later this year). In addition to these, the collection houses a number of PDP-11 and PDP-8 minicomputers and a PDP-10 clone, the XKL Toad-1 System running the TOPS-20 operating system.
The collection also contains image files for a great deal of software for DEC computers, and a large library of manuals which will be scanned and put on-line over the coming months. These will be available through the PDP Planet Web site, as will descriptions of the work done in restoring the hardware to working condition, and recommendations for how others can leverage our restoration work for their own projects.
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It is possible that no other technology on earth has so continually renewed itself as computer technology. Advances in this field arrive in such swift succession that even the software and hardware of a few seasons ago are considered obsolete. The decades-old computers and software in this collection, therefore, are truly worthy of our preservation and study—both for the cutting-edge innovations of their day as well as for their historical significance.
PDP Planet also fulfills my hope that the achievements of early computer engineers aren't lost to time. I wanted to provide a Web site and repository that recognized the efforts of those creative engineers who made some of the early breakthroughs in interactive computing that changed the world.
I hope you enjoy learning more about these remarkable machines. I certainly had a ball using them in their heyday—from the late 1960s to the early 1980s! During that period almost all Microsoft development was done on these platforms.
Enjoy.
Paul G. Allen
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