Summary
User's Handbook for the Programmed Data Processor-8, for the PDP-8 computer, produced by Digital Equipment Corporation, Maynard, Massachusetts. Made in U.S.A. Issued to the Division of Tribophysics, CSIRO, Melbourne.
Physical Description
269 page, portrait format, paper based manual with a blue-green, black and white front cover. The front cover has a white background but there is a block of colour (blue-green) taking up the lower register, inside of which the title of the manual is printed in black. The manual is divided into chapters (6 in total with 7 appendices), each one relating to specific aspects of the PDP-8 system. The information contained in the sections of the manual is presented in several ways including printed text, black and white images and tabular format. There are three holes along the left hand side of the manual, punctuating all of the pages, which would allow the document to be stored in a ringbinder.
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Acquisition Information
Donation from Materials Science Division, Commonwealth Scientific & Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), 19 Jun 1986
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Publisher
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Maynard, Massachusetts, United States of America, 1966
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Inscriptions
'F-85 5/66 PROGRAMMED DATA PROFESSOR- 8/ PDP-8 USERS HANDBOOK/ DIGITAL EQUIPMENT CORPORATION MAYNARD, MASSACHUSETTS' (front cover) 'RETURN TO TRIBOPHYSICS' (stamped in red ink on the front cover)
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Classification
Computing & calculating, Digital computing, Reference materials
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Object Measurements
278 mm (Length), 215 mm (Width), 18 mm (Height)
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