The oldest and the youngest

The PDP-8 was produced by Digital Equipment from 1965 to 1995. This made it within computers what the VW beetle or the Citroen 2CV were within cars.

The first version, the Classic-8 was a 2nd-generation computer build with discrete transistors, diodes and resistors. In 1975 the first single chip version, the IM6100 was manufactured by Intersil. The IM6100 had some shortcomings in it's design which made practical applications very expensive. It was used in the VT-78.

The enhanced version, the H6120, was until 1990 in Digital Equipment's "DECmates", which were the last commercial PDP-8-computers. In 2003 an american PDP-8 enthusiast designed a small single board computer with H6120 as base, the SBC6120. One of them was donated to our museum and finally in 2015, 50 years after introduction of the first PDP-8 we finished it and brought in an adequate format: a small picture frame.