• DocumentCode
    1522259
  • Title

    1965 The PDP-8: The first ‘personal’ computer for engineers and scientists ushered in the minicomputer era

  • Author

    Voelcker, John

  • Volume
    25
  • Issue
    11
  • fYear
    1988
  • Firstpage
    86
  • Lastpage
    92
  • Abstract
    “Your computer killed 14 000 of my chickens!” squawked the voice on the telephone. A power outage had scrambled part of the core memory in a DEC PDP-8 minicomputer that controlled heat lamps in a hen-house. Unable to restart, the machine failed to turn on the lights, and thousands of day-old chicks died.
  • Keywords
    Computer architecture; Flip chip; Handheld computers; Operating systems; Standards;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Spectrum, IEEE
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9235
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/MSPEC.1988.6449143
  • Filename
    6449143
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1522259