The real thing, and a vid of it running

[Bill E]

From my Computer History Museum visit. There is a vid of Peter Sampson loading the music program in preparation for about 40 minutes of Xmas songs, but can't post it here, too big. It's in the root of my pdp1-mods repo if you want to see a PDP-1 in action.

Bill

[Bill E]

I replaced the vid in the repo with a longer mp4 version, much better. It has audio.

Bill

[Glenn Babecki]

And for not the real thing...

Our daughter was recently up in NYC at the Museum of the Moving Image and came across an exhibit related to (as she put it) "ancient" video games.  She sent an attached picture of this "PDP-1" exhibit.  My first reaction looking at the picture on the phone was "Wait, What?!".  This can't be as the only PDP-1 exhibit I know is at the CHM.

Then upon closer inspection, this exhibit appears to be a PiDP-1 hybrid thing (i.e., no hulking cabinets).  The Flexowriter and the paper tape reader are what threw me off at first glance.  I haven't attempted to confirm the composition of the items by scaling things in the photo.  I can't read the poster or find the exhibit details on the museum website.  I don't know when the exhibit went online, but I can't believe someone cobbled together one of Michael Gardi's Type 30 displays to add to the exhibit.  My daughter did say she thought they "had to do some custom work to make it museum worthy."

Glenn

On Mon, Dec 29, 2025, 4:07 PM Bill E <wjegr...@gmail.com> wrote:

From my Computer History Museum visit. There is a vid of Peter Sampson loading the music program in preparation for about 40 minutes of Xmas songs, but can't post it here, too big. It's in the root of my pdp1-mods repo if you want to see a PDP-1 in action.

Bill

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