Preliminary Specifications: Programmed Data Processor Model Three (PDP-3) / October, 1960
by Digital Equipment Corporation
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Chapters (89)
- PRELIMINARY SPECIFICATIONS
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- GENERAL DESCRIPTION
- SYSTEM BLOCK DIAGRAM
- Memory Buffer
- Accumulator
- Carry Storage Register
- In-Out Register
- Memory Addressing
- Program Counter
- Index Adder
- Instruction Register
- Program Flags
- Test Address
- Test Word
- Sense Switches
- ELECTRICAL DESCRIPTION
- MECHANICAL DESCRIPTION
- Console
- Equipment Frame
- ENVIRONMENTAL REQUIREMENTS
- CENTRAL PROCESSOR
- OPERATING SPEEDS
- INSTRUCTION FORMAT
- NUMBER SYSTEM
- INDEXING
- INDIRECT ADDRESSING
- INSTRUCTION LIST
- Indexable Memory Instructions
- Non-Indexable Memory Instructions
- Non-Memory Instructions
- MANUAL CONTROLS
- Operating Push Buttons
- STORAGE
- STANDARD INPUT-OUTPUT
- PAPER TAPE READER
- PAPER TAPE PUNCH
- TYPEWRITER
- OPTIONAL INPUT-OUTPUT
- SEQUENCE BREAK SYSTEM
- HIGH SPEED IN-OUT CHANNEL
- MAGNETIC TAPE
- CATHODE-RAY-TUBE DISPLAY
- REAL TIME CLOCK
- LINE PRINTER
- UTILITY PROGRAMS
- FRAP-3 — The Assembly Program
- DECAL — The Compiler Program
- FLOATING POINT SUBROUTINES
- MAINTENANCE ROUTINES
- MISCELLANEOUS ROUTINES
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