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Innovations and Improvements Automatic wire-wrapping production Serial instruction implementation Medium scale integrated circuits Smaller cabinet Omnibus Half-size cabinet with fewer slots than 8/E floating-point processor Semiconductor memory;

Volume (cubic feet) 8.0 3.2 8.0 2.0 2.2 1.8 1.2

Data Rate from Memory sec) (words/M 1.26 0.08 1.34 1.26 1.52 1.52 1.34

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Cost of Processor 12-bit Words of Memory ($1000s) 16.2 8.79 11.6 7.0 4.99 3.69 2.6
Evolution of the PDP-8 [VOEL88]

First Shipped 4/65 9/66 4/68 11/68 3/71 6/72 1/75

Table 2.5 Model PDP-8 PDP-8/5 PDP-8/1 PDP-8/L PDP-8/E PDP-8/M PDP-8/A

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