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PDP-1

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Restored PDP-1 Demonstration

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PDP-1 Demo at the CHM (short version)

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Dec PDP-1 Playing Music

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Spacewar! - PDP-1 - One of the First Video Games (MIT 1962)

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1963 DEC - PDP 1 computer, enabling computer games

The PDP-1 is the first computer in Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP series and was first produced in 1959. It is famous for being the computer most important in the creation of hacker culture at MIT, BBN and elsewhere. The PDP-1 is the original hardware for playing history's first game on a minicomputer, Steve Russell's Spacewar!.
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