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Nostalgic for computing in the 1960’s? Run a simulation of a Digital Equipment PDP-8 on your Mac. The PDP-8 was the most important small computer of the era.

Benchmarks show that the PDP-8/E Simulator outperforms a hardware PDP-8/E in orders of magnitude when running on reasonable current Macs. There are options to slow down the CPU and the I/O devices to the speed of the real hardware.

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