PDP-8


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 * [[image:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/PDP-8.jpg/450px-PDP-8.jpg width="225" height="300" link="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDP-8"]] ||~  || The 12-bit **PDP-8** was the first successful commercial [|minicomputer] manufactured and sold by Digital Equipment Corporation from 1965 into the 1970s, initially designed by chief engineer [|Edson de Castro].

The PDP-8's basic configuration had a main memory of 4,096 twelve-bit words, the programmer's view of the PDP-8 had only eight instructions and two registers, a 12-bit [|accumulator], and a [|carry bit] called the link register.

An amount of user-donated software for the PDP-8 was available from [|DECUS], the Digital Equipment Corporation User Society, and often came with full source listings and documentation. || toc =PDP-8 Chess Programs=
 * PDP-8 ||~  ||^   ||
 * CHEKMO-II
 * QCHESS

=See also=
 * PDP-1
 * PDP-6
 * PDP-10
 * PDP-11
 * Nova

=External Links=
 * [|PDP-8 from Wikipedia]
 * [|Programmed Data Processor from Wikipedia]
 * [|The Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8] by [|Douglas W. Jones]
 * [|Highgate's PDP-8 Page]
 * [|Online PDP-8 Home Page]
 * [|The PDP-8 Family] from [|Computer Collection]
 * [|Old-Computers Museum | Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-8]
 * [|PDP-8.org: a PDP-8 and PDP-12 resource]
 * [|DEC PDP 8 Video] from [|The National Museum of Computing]
 * [|PDP-8] by [|Ed Thelen]
 * [|PDP-8] from The Computer History Museum
 * [|/resources/still-image/DEC/PDP-8/] from The Computer History Museum
 * [|/pdf/dec/pdp8] from [|bitsavers.org]
 * [|Program Library PDP-8 Catalog 1978] (pdf)

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