If you’ve spent a few years around Hackaday, you’ve probably seen or heard of the DEC PDP-11 before. It was one of the great machines of the minicomputer era, back when machines like the Apple ][ and ...

Unix v3 arrived in 1972 and introduced pipes, and it was also the version where the then-new C programming language was first written. Now the long-lost Unix v4 has been recovered, and it was the ...

Levy’s Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution is something like required reading for the hacker subculture, and Hackaday by extension. The first section of that book is all about early hackers and ...

Here is Ken Olsen, President of DEC, expounding on DEC's attitude towards UNIX: "One of the questions that comes up all the time is: How enthusiastic is our support for UNIX? Unix was written on our ...

I never used one, but watched with awe the one we had at our school being used in the computer lab, 1980 i think it was ? There was a guru of a developer at the time who had programmed Pong off a set ...