The PDP-8 was the first successful commercial minicomputer, produced by Digital Equipment Corporation in the 1960s. DEC introduced it on 22 March 1965, and sold more than 50,000 systems, the most of any computer up to that date.... and its relatives, produced in various incarnations from August 1963 to mid-1990. Many ADC
Analog-to-digital converter
An analog-to-digital converter is a device which converts continuous signal to Discrete signal digital numbers. The reverse operation is performed by a digital-to-analog converter .... s (analog to digital converters) have a 12-bit resolution.
The octal numeral system, or oct for short, is the radix-8 number system, and uses the digits 0 to 7. Numerals can be made from Binary numeral system numerals by grouping consecutive digits into groups of three .... , 1000 hexadecimal
Hexadecimal
In mathematics and computer science, hexadecimal is a numeral system with a radix, or base, of 16. It uses sixteen distinct symbols, most often the symbols 0–9 to represent values zero to nine, and A, B, C, D, E, F to represent values ten to fifteen.... ) unique combinations.