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Recommended: Gigatron

a computer w/o a microprocessor

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PiDP-10: RECREATING THE PDP-10 AT THE MIT AI LAB

Thank you for considering to adopt a PiDP-10!

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And please join the PiDP-10 forum if you're interested. The whole purpose of this project is to keep the PDP-10 alive, so we hope you will. The manual (link) is still a work in progress, but at some 50 pages it will tell you much more.​ The first 500 kits have gone out in early 2024.

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If you want a kit, just click on the button to the right to go to the order form.

- If we have kits ready for shipping, we can send you one straight away, out of inventory from a fulfillment center in Florida.

- Sometimes we run out of stock, in which case the order form will ask if you want to be notified when we have new kits ready to send out.

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Cost:

  • Kit: $370 plus shipping

  • Assembled & tested: adds $125 to the cost

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If you think $370 is expensive: at least it is not because of profiteering. It is the cost of two injection molds, each over half a meter wide. But I felt the PiDP-10 had to look perfect, there was no other way.

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I used to make the PiDP kits from my home, but that got to be too much. So last year, I helped to set up CEDS, where the kits are now made. For order-related questions, use this email address: oscar <at> ceds.dev .

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Try before you buy: the software works fine on a Pi without the PiDP-10 hardware. Although you are Blinkenless and will have to boot the operating systems manually rather than through the front panel.

A user manual will be available soon for download (WIP).

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This is a personal web site. Although a real effort was made to trace owners of all illustrations used on the site, please let me know through the Contacts page if you feel that any materials infringe on copyrights or Fair Use. I would like to thank www.old-computers.com and www.oldcomputers.net for the kind permission for the use of some of their pictures.

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