Programmed Data Processor-1

Programmed Data Processor-1
Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)
1961

This is the marketing brochure for the DEC PDP-1. Announced in 1960, Digital Equipment Corporation's (DEC) PDP-1 marked a radical shift in the philosophy of computer design: it was the first commercial computer that focused on interaction with the human user rather than the efficient use of computer cycles. Basing his designs on MIT's Lincoln Laboratory TX-0 and TX-2 computers, Ben Gurley designed the 18-bit machine in under three–and–a–half months. DEC produced only 50 of these machines. It also had an optional high-resolution graphical display that MIT students used to play Spacewar!, the first interactive computer video game.

(PDP-1 Restoration Program - Computer History Museum)

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Personas op de iPhone

Oh ja, Flash. Steve Jobs wil geen Flash op de iPhone/iPad omdat het so buggy is. De mensen van het MIT – een van de grootste verzamelingen bollebozen van de westerse wereld – vinden het kennelijk een geschikt platform. Zoek de discrepantie.

Personas

"Personas shows you how the Internet sees you. It is a critique of data mining, revealing the computer's uncanny insights and inadvertent errors. It is meant for the viewer to reflect on our current and future world where digital histories are as important, if not more important, than oral histories, and computational methods of condensing our digital traces are largely opaque and socially ignorant."