A large team of tech nostalgia enthusiasts have made a PiDP-10, a replica of the PDP-10 mainframe computer first launched by the Digital Equipment Corporation in 1966.
Gordon Bell, engineer, entrepreneur, and visionary, passed away on May 17, 2024. He was instrumental in the development of minicomputers at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), co-founded the Digital Computer Museum, and contributed to the growth of Microsoft Research.
This article discusses the MIT Artificial Intelligence (AI) Lab's 'Tourist Policy' and how it impacted students' access to its resources. As a high school student in Maryland, the author shares their experience of using the lab's PDP-10s over the ARPANET and how it inspired them to learn and contribute to the MIT community.
