[RetroBytes] takes us on a whirlwind tour of the history of the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), its founder Ken Olsen, and during intermission builds up a working replica of the PDP-11 from a ...

or DEC. DEC produced a succession of minicomputers in their PDP line, of which the most successful was their PDP-11 series. These were 16-bit minicomputers that remained in their product line from ...

These were the first versions to run on the DEC PDP-11. That's the second machine that Unix ran on – a 16-bit DEC ...

A former Royal Air Force engineer recalled being sent to Reading for training on the PDP 11/45. "This was at the Digital Equipment Corporation's training facility in Reading," he recalled.

One of DEC's most notable contributions was the PDP (Programmed Data Processor) series of computers. These machines, particularly the PDP-8 and PDP-11, were smaller and more affordable than the ...