PDP 10 arrives at James Cook University

A short documentary on the arrival of timeshare computing in north Queensland with the installation of the PDP-10 at James Cook University. The final 30 seconds contain some insightful and prescient thoughts...

[@jennylappin365]

Wonderful! So much community pride. Different standards of workplace health and safety in those days.

[@herdware]

Nice video. From a time when a computer was a big deal.

[@AlanCockerill]

And it all went downhill from there ;-)

[@apogeedata]

What went downhill from there? It wasn’t another 20 years until things went downhill for Digital Equipment corporation I’m still supporting them multiple vac 6000s at Verizon and AT&T to this day and there is God knows how many more machines running all over the world PDP’s are still running Nuclear power plants all around Canada the list goes on and of course it’s getting smaller of the year

[@GodEmperorSuperStar]

@@apogeedata Only 36-bit systems are relevant to this thread. Yes, all of DEC collapsed but the 36-bit systems collapsed much earlier than the puny 16-big and 32-bit DEC systems. Project Jupiter was canceled in 1983. You're just like all the other ones that think DEC didn't make mainframes and only made minicomputers. How is it that so many people buy into that narrative?

[@apogeedata]

@@GodEmperorSuperStar excuse me what computers do you believe the Hubble telescope was designed and managed on DEC system 2065s and those machines were running way after 1983 Brookhaven national Lab I worked on the 1095s and they’re 2040s they’re 2020s

[@GodEmperorSuperStar]

@@apogeedata my reply got erased. Has Elon Musk secretly bought out YT?

[@redmartian]

Where did you find this film? Does anyone know what happened to this machine?

[@larsbrinkhoff]

Guessing it was replaced by this: 2407 TOPS-10 James Cook University Queensland, Australia KL1091 512K

[@AitkenBogen]

@@larsbrinkhoff Via successive upgrades is my understanding

[@averydesignvideo]

Original looks to be a KA-10 hopefully somebody knows the Sn

[@Drforbin941]

Its a KA