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We are changing our name!
In conjunction with making the PDPplanet collection available to the general public for visits, we are changing our name to the Living Computer Museum. Our new website will feature a larger number of systems and up-to-date information on restorations, events, and cooperative exhibits with other museums. Once the new site is operational, the PDPplanet address will refer you there. We look forward to your continued interest, and hope to see you when we open for public visits!
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We are looking for the following systems and peripherals for the Living Computer Museum in order to restore them and make them available to the public.
Please contact us at Collections@LivingComputerMuseum.org if you have such hardware for sale.
Duplicates are welcome.
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- IBM System/360: Model 30, 40, 50, 65 or 75
- 2311 or 2314 disk drives
- 2400 tape drives
- 27xx communications gear
- IBM System/370
- 2314, 3330, 3330-11, or 3350 disk drives
- 3400 tape drives
- 37xx communications gear
- IBM 1130 with associated peripherals
- Burroughs 1700 system with associated peripherals
- XDS Sigma 7 or 9 with associated peripherals
- Interdata 7/32 or 8/32 with peripherals
- Imlac PDS-1 programmable display system
- CDC Cyber system with associated peripherals
- Cray-2 system with associated peripherals
- HP 1000, 21xx, 3000 systems with associated peripherals
- Data General Nova 800 system with peripherals
- Data General Eclipse S/200 or C/300 with peripherals
- Data General Eclipse MV/8000 with associated peripherals
- Pr1me 750 system with peripherals
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- PDP-15/50 or XVM plus appropriate peripherals
- PDP-9 plus appropriate peripherals
- PDP-1 plus appropriate peripherals
- PDP-10 (KA-10 based) plus appropriate peripherals
- DECsystem-10 (KI-10 based) plus appropriate peripherals
- PDP-11/45
- PDP-11/83 with appropriate peripherals
- RK, RL, RP disk drives
- TU56 and TU55 DECtape drives
- PDP-8 system with appropriate peripherals ("Straight 8")
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Browse PDP Planet's Image Gallery
Step back into time and browse through photos of historic mainframes and minicomputers. |
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Welcome to the PDP Planet Community!
We encourage enthusiasts at all levels of experience to apply for accounts on the 2065 and the Toad-1 and to visit the PDP Planet Forums to share ideas and ask questions. |
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Read PDP Planet
Restoration Stories
The restoration stories are taken from excerpts of progress reports. Enjoy! |
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A resource for computer history.
PDP Planet is a portal into the Paul Allen collection of Digital Equipment Corporation mainframes and minicomputers, where pride of place is given to two PDP-10 systems (a 2065 running the Tops-10 operating system, and a 1090 scheduled to be brought up later this year). In addition to these, the collection houses a number of PDP-11 and PDP-8 minicomputers, a VAX-11 running OpenVMS 6.2, and a PDP-10 clone, the XKL Toad-1 System running the TOPS-20 operating system.
The collection also contains image files for a great deal of software for DEC computers, and a large library of manuals which will be scanned and put on-line over the coming months. These will be available through the PDP Planet Web site, as will descriptions of the work done in restoring the hardware to working condition, and recommendations for how others can leverage our restoration work for their own projects.
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It is possible that no other technology on earth has so continually renewed itself as computer technology. Advances in this field arrive in such swift succession that even the software and hardware of a few seasons ago are considered obsolete. The decades-old computers and software in this collection, therefore, are truly worthy of our preservation and study—both for the cutting-edge innovations of their day as well as for their historical significance.
PDP Planet also fulfills my hope that the achievements of early computer engineers aren't lost to time. I wanted to provide a Web site and repository that recognized the efforts of those creative engineers who made some of the early breakthroughs in interactive computing that changed the world.
I hope you enjoy learning more about these remarkable machines. I certainly had a ball using them in their heyday—from the late 1960s to the early 1980s! During that period almost all Microsoft development was done on these platforms.
Enjoy.
Paul G. Allen
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