Category:Programmed Data Processor

**Programmed Data Processor**
	series of minicomputers having approximately the size of closets; made and marketed by the Digital Equipment Corporation from 1957 to 1990; model numbering from PDP-1 to PDP-16 with some numbers left out Six (just exemplarily chosen) minicomputers of the PDP series from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) from PDP-1 (1957) to PDP-15, the production end of which was in 1979
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Instance of	computer model series;
Subclass of	computer;
Has part(s)	PDP-1; PDP-4; PDP-5; PDP-6; PDP-7; PDP-8; PDP-9; PDP-10; PDP-11; PDP-12; PDP-14; PDP-15; PDP-16;
Manufacturer	Digital Equipment Corporation;
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English: Programmed Data Processor (PDP) was a series of minicomputers made and marketed by the Digital Equipment Corporation from 1957 to 1990. The name 'PDP' intentionally avoided the use of the term 'computer' because, at the time of the first PDPs, computers had a reputation of being large, complicated, and expensive machines, and the venture capitalists behind Digital (especially Georges Doriot) would not support Digital's attempting to build a "computer"; the word "minicomputer" had not yet been coined. So instead, Digital used their existing line of logic modules to build a Programmable Data Processor and aimed it at a market which could not afford the larger computers.