Laboratory Instrument Computer LINC: “The Genesis of a Technological Revolution”

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> This website was written by Samuel A. Rosenfeld as part of the Seminar in Celebration of the Twentieth Anniversary of the LINC Computer, November 30, 1983

Could use a date.

This is a great historical account.

The promise of laboratory computing was so profound.

I'm going to use this material to no end.

So many of the things they were striving for as pioneers have still not been achieved or have drifted further out-of-reach over the decades.

I wonder if this is where LINC/Quantum descended from?

We are fortunate to have a LINC, and a LINC-8 at the System Source Computer Museum. ( https://museum.syssrc.com ) The museum is in Hunt Valley, MD. The LINC was last operational at Digibarn.com in 2009. We hope to have it working again early in 2022. We are also luck to have a complete set of drawings!

Severo Ornstein's "Computing in the Middle Ages" [1] has plenty of detail on the development and lab usage of the LINC. He claims it as the first personal computer.

Wes Clark presents "The LINC was Early and Small" at the ACM Conference on the History of Personal Workstations in 1986.[2]

[1] https://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/BookDetails/230036-Com...

[2] https://computerhistory.org/blog/the-1986-acm-conference-on-...

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