Mastodawn

No fue la más famosa, ni la más compatible, ni la más poderosa. Pero sí representa un momento único: cuando DEC intentó convertir el legado del 𝗣𝗗𝗣-8 en una computadora personal de oficina.

Una pequeña 𝗣𝗗𝗣-8 que se negó a desaparecer.

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RetroComputingMX 4d ago

La 𝑫𝑬𝑪𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝑰𝑰 fue una de esas máquinas extrañas y fascinantes de la historia de 𝖣𝗂𝗀𝗂𝗍𝖺𝗅 𝖤𝗊𝗎𝗂𝗉𝗆𝖾𝗇𝗍 𝖢𝗈𝗋𝗉𝗈𝗋𝖺𝗍𝗂𝗈𝗇: una computadora de escritorio de 1982 que llevaba dentro el espíritu del legendario 𝗣𝗗𝗣-8.

Aunque por fuera parecía una estación de oficina moderna, con monitor, teclado separado y doble unidad de disquete RX50, por dentro pertenecía a una genealogía mucho más antigua: la arquitectura 𝗣𝗗𝗣-8 de 12 bits, nacida en los años 60

#retrocomputingmx #decmate #PDP8 #DigitalEquipmentCorporation

LittleAlex 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇩🇪🇳🇴May 31

Ahoy, DECmate II! the little PDP-8 that could

In 1982, as we mentioned at length with our history of the DEC Professional, Digital Equipment Corporation attempted to keep their PDP-11 minicomputer market-relevant by turning the venerable architecture into a largely incompatible desktop microcomputer. But that wasn't the only PDP-series mini it happened to, and it wasn't even the first: the PDP-8 actually got the shrink-ray treatment several years before, and not content to merely make it into a smaller general purpose computer, DEC turned it into a word processor.

#retrocomputing #dec #digital #pdp-8 #pdp8

https://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/05/ahoy-decmate-ii-little-pdp-8-that-could.html

Ahoy, DECmate II! the little PDP-8 that could

In 1982, as we mentioned at length with our history of the DEC Professional , Digital Equipment Corporation attempted to keep their PDP-11 m...

N-gated Hacker News May 31

Ah, yes, the DECmate II, the "little PDP-8 that could"—more like "the little PDP-8 that barely could but we talk about it incessantly anyway." 🚢🔍 Who knew turning a #minicomputer into a desktop would lead to more articles than sales? 📉💾
http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/05/ahoy-decmate-ii-little-pdp-8-that-could.html #DECmateII #PDP8 #nostalgia #techhistory #computing #HackerNews #ngated

Ahoy, DECmate II! the little PDP-8 that could

In 1982, as we mentioned at length with our history of the DEC Professional , Digital Equipment Corporation attempted to keep their PDP-11 m...

Hacker News May 31

Ahoy, DECmate II the little PDP-8 that could

http://oldvcr.blogspot.com/2026/05/ahoy-decmate-ii-little-pdp-8-that-could.html

#HackerNews #DECmateII #PDP8 #vintagecomputing #retrohardware #techhistory

Ahoy, DECmate II! the little PDP-8 that could

In 1982, as we mentioned at length with our history of the DEC Professional , Digital Equipment Corporation attempted to keep their PDP-11 m...

electron.greg May 14

I modified a VERY cheap and nasty display rack to fit my #PDP8 computer and monitor, almost perfectly.

Diane Bruce May 3

This post
https://fosstodon.org/@deshipu/116510956431897662

tongue in cheek as it is, idly got me wondering if building a 5 bit computer would have ever made sense. The PDP-8/S was a *ONE* bit computer in the sense it reused the ALU one bit at a time cycling the bits through. It had also earned the nickname the PDP-8/Slow for this reason.
A University school mate of mine owned one!
The minimum 'byte' was 6 bits and it used RAD50 for this reason. So no a 5 bit computer would not have made sense, to save RAM as jokingly put, but we come close.

#PDP8 #PDP8S

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Ancient Romans wrote everything in upper case, and wrote numbers with letters, because they could only use 5-bit encoding due to severe RAM shortages.

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