Details about IBM's early 'scientific' computers

Brian L. Stuart blstuart at bellsouth.net
Wed Nov 15 22:11:32 CST 2017


On Wed, 11/15/17, Jon Elson via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> PDP-5 and LINC certainly fit that requirement.
 
Funny the LINC should come up tonight.  Earlier this evening
I went to a talk given by Mary Allen Wilkes who was the
developer of the system software for the LINC.  She had one
in her parents' house around the 1965 timeframe.  Here's
a pic of her with that machine.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Mary_Allen_Wilkes_-_LINC_at_Home_-_1965.jpg

Hard not to call the LINC "personal" in that context.

BLS


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