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PDP-10, an Uncommon card
Digital Equipment Corporation's PDP-10, later marketed as the DECsystem-10, is a mainframe computer family manufactured from 1966, delivered from December 1967, and discontinued in 1983.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 76
- Power
- 152
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 65,000
Power 152 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
PDP-10 quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the PDP-10 card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The main difference was a greatly improved hardware ______.
Answer
implementation. The main difference was a greatly improved hardware implementation. From the PDP-10 article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
____s models and beyond were marketed under the DECsystem-10 name, especially as the TOPS-10 operating system became widely used.
Answer
1970s. 1970s models and beyond were marketed under the DECsystem-10 name, especially as the TOPS-10 operating system became widely used. From the PDP-10 article on Wikipedia.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- 1970s models and beyond were marketed under the DECsystem-10 name, especially as the TOPS-10 operating system became widely used.
- The PDP-10's architecture is almost identical to that of DEC's earlier PDP-6, sharing the same 36-bit word length and slightly extending the instruction set.
- The main difference was a greatly improved hardware implementation.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The PDP-10 article was read about 65,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 76: each hit it takes is cut by 30 %.
How to get PDP-10
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, PDP-10 (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Gah4, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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