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[[Image:Restored-PDP-1.jpg|thumb|PDP-1|200px|right|PDP-1 at the [[Computer History Museum]]]]▼
'''Expensive Desk Calculator''' by [[Robert A. Wagner]] is thought to be [[computing]]'s first interactive calculation program.<ref name="Kotok">[[Alan Kotok]] ([[15 May]] [[2006]]). [http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4995476926708958999&q=computer+history+dec The Mouse That Roared: PDP-1 Celebration Event Lecture]. Computer History Museum (Google Video link). Retrieved on [[22 June]] [[2006]]. Kotok's description begins at 1:02.</ref>
▲[[Image:Restored-PDP-1.jpg|thumb|PDP-1|200px|right|PDP-1 at the [[Computer History Museum]]]]
The software first ran on the [[TX-0]] computer loaned to the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]] (MIT) by [[Lincoln Laboratory]]. It was ported to the [[PDP-1]] donated to MIT in 1961 by [[Digital Equipment Corporation]].<ref>[[Robert M. Slade]] ([[26 January]] [[1994]]). [http://victoria.tc.ca/int-grps/books/techrev/bkdecwrk.rvw BKDECWRK.RVW: Review of "Digital At Work", Pearson, 1992]. Retrieved on [[22 June]] [[2006]]</ref>
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