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Digital Equipment Corporation(DEC) was co-founded by Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson. -
The PDP-1 was created by a company by the name of Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) in Maynard Massachusetts.
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The prototype of the PDP-1 was ready for testing.
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The first prototype was shown at the Eastern Joint computer conference.
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The first machine was delivered to Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. an American research and development company
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The PDP-1 was formally accepted by Bolt, Beramek & Newman, inc. and presented in "Computers and Automation" . -
DEC donated the PDP-1 to MIT where it was placed next to its ancestor the TX-0 computer.
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TECO, Text Editor & Corrector was a character oriented text editor and programming language developed for use on the PDP-1 and other DEC computers.
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Expensive Typewriter, a text editing program considered the first word processing program was made to run on the PDP-1 which was newly acquired by MIT.
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The earliest time sharing system created by Bolt, Beramek and Newman for the PDP-1.
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The first video game newly installed on the PDP-1 to be played on multiple computer installations. -
Ben Gurley, the lead engineer on the PDP-1 project passed away, a terrible loss to computer engineering -
The end of production of the PDP-1. There were in total 53 delivered with the last built in 1969.
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A PDP-1 machine was found and placed in the Computer History Museum.
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In 2004, volunteers of the computer history museum booted up the machine and the it came back to life.
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Nowadays only 3 PDP-1 are known to still exist and are all kept at Computer History Museum. They are still active and one of the machines are used as demonstration on two saturdays each month.