Like many Hackaday readers, [Steven Stallion] has had his eyes on the replica PDP-11 created by [Oscar Vermeulen] for some time now, and this summer he finally got the opportunity to build one himself ...

Classic Unix tools (ls, cat, ed, cal, dc) and games show modern OS lineage ...

Hands up if you feel your spiritual home is in front of a terminal with a “DIGITAL” logo on it. It’s a name that has long ago been subsumed into first Compaq and then by extension HP, but it’s one ...

As we move swiftly into an era of ubiquitous computing, Internets of Things, and mind-machine connections via wetware, it’s important to step back and take a look at where we’ve been. That’s why this ...

I never used one, but watched with awe the one we had at our school being used in the computer lab, 1980 i think it was ? There was a guru of a developer at the time who had programmed Pong off a set ...

The microcomputer version of the PDP-11 from Digital introduced in 1975. It used the Q-bus and served as a stand-alone computer or was built into other equipment. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ...

Studying Computer Science in the late 70s we were given access to the departmental PDP11 (a /23 if memory serves) running Unix in our second year. After a year of submitting jobs on punched cards to ...