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1968
Hardware Description
The PDP-9 was a very popular, eighteen bit computer, with a cycle time of one microsecond. Over 430 were sold world-wide.
Sites in Australia included Government Aircraft Factory, Australian Iron and Steel, Melbourne University Physics Dept, Latrobe University and the Parkes Radio Telescope.
The PDP-9 was one of the first small computers to have an Operating System, initially based on DECtape, later disk. It was priced at $35,000 for 8K words (16K bytes) of memory and a high speed paper tape reader and punch.
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Model Number:
PDP-9 -
Manufacturer:
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Hardware Type:
Computer - Mid Range -
Manufacture Year:
1968 -
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