Ars Technica

A brief tour of the PDP-11, the most influential minicomputer of all time

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 ...
Hackaday

History Of Digital Equipment Corp And Bonus PDP-11 Replica Build

[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 kit ...
Hackaday

Reliving Second-Hand Nostalgia With The PDP-11

Levy’s Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution is something like required reading for the hacker subculture, and Hackaday by extension. The first section of that book is all about early hackers and ...
AZOM

How Sigma WinCCS Became the Global Standard for Creep and Stress Rupture Testing

In 1985, Pratt & Whitney (East Hartford, CT) commissioned an outside systems house to develop a proprietary computer-based creep system, ACTS (Automated Creep Test System). Written in Fortran and ...