Front of PDP-11/45 panel

PDP-11/45 panel

physical object
Identifier
2016.6.486
Description
Manufactured by the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), the PDP-11 was a series of minicomputers sold from 1970-1979.

The PDP-11/45 model, released in 1972, used UNIBUS as its principal bus and 18-bit addressing, which allowed for up to 256KB of main memory. It was the first PDP-11 model to support an FP11 floating-point coprocessor.
Related Term
minicomputers (is described by)
Related people
Trevor R. Grove (donor)
Charlotte Wipp (documented)
Amy VanderLaan (documented)