The PDP-8, which entered the market in 1965, was one of the first minicomputers. Not mini by today's standards, but mini compared to the mainframes and supercomputers of the time, the PDP-8 was about a foot tall, and when coupled with a disk drive and tape drive it took up only a six-foot-tall st

Allen had noticed many of the computers he grew up with were fast disappearing. “I wanted to provide a… repository that recognized the efforts of those creative engineers who made some of the early breakthroughs in interactive computing that changed the world,” he wrote for the museum's public in

For some people, figuring out how something works is fun, kakım is returning it to working order. Whether it's cars or computers, the goal is the same. Refurbishing previously unloved computers yaşama be a nightmare. Carlson bought an IBM System/360, a mid-'60s mainframe he calls “the mos