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The 16-bit minicomputers PDP-11 Digital Equipment Corporation ( DEC ) was founded in 1957. DEC's first computer, the PDP-1, sold for only $120,000 at a time when other computers sold for over $1,000,000. Everyone ( the government and DEC's stockholders included ) knew that computers were big and expensive and needed a computer center and a large staff; DEC chose to avoid dealing with these stereotypes by entirely avoiding the term "computer"; thus, for over a decade, all digital computers sold by DEC were called Programmed Data Processors ( PDPs ). Ken Olsen claimed that the board of directors would not let him call the machines computers because some contemporary study had predicted that the world market for computers would be very small - less than 100 if memory serves. DEC built a number of different computers under the PDP label, with a huge range of price and performance. The PDP-11, year 1970, price $10,800, was the DEC's first and only 16 bit computer. This site is dedicated to preserving the history and legacy of the PDP-11 series of 16-bit minicomputers produced by Digital Equipment Corporation from 1970 to 1990, and by Mentec from 1994 onwards.
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