PDP-8L Minicomputer
date: label: date made
content: ca 1971
name: label: maker
content: Digital Equipment Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: Digital Equipment Corporation made several models of its successful PDP-8 minicomputer (for a more expensive, earlier version of the machine see 1989.0521.02), This is the relatively small, light, and inexpensive PDP-8L. It came in a metal box with orange writing and switches. This example was owned by Jonathan Titus, who took it as inspiration for his design the Mark-8 minicomputer, once of the first computers to use microprocessors.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Massachusetts, Maynard
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Jonathan A. Titus
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1991.0891.01
label: catalog number
content: 1991.0891.01
label: accession number
content: 1991.0891
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Minicomputer
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 8 3/4 in x 19 in x 21 in; 22.225 cm x 48.26 cm x 53.34 cm