8 Jun
2024
8 Jun
'24
4:56 p.m.
On 6/8/2024 7:43 AM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
On 6/7/24 20:42, Vincent Slyngstad via cctalk wrote:
Even maintenance drawings would be great.
Does any software survive? Diagnostics would be cool, but so would
MUMPS. Not sure the radiology software would be useful, but it would
still be of historic interest.
Thanks,
Vince
On 6/7/2024 6:19 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote:
An Artronix PC? I seriously doubt it, but it is possible. There is at
least one LINC that was restored about a decade ago, and taken out to
VCF 10. If an Artronix PC did evade the scrapper, it would not be that
hard to get it running again. OK, I have to chime in here. I worked for
Artronix about 1972. The
LINC computer was developed at MIT for use in biomedical research
labs, and a bunch of people involved with it later moved to
Washington University in St. Louis. The Biomedical Computer Lab there
later added some features such a a crude memory mapping unit and more
memory, and called this the Programmed Console, so as not to scare
people away. Artronix began building these PC's and selling them to
hospitals for radiation therapy planning. I have no idea how many
were sold. They were built into a desk, and used 7400-series logic
chips. They etched their own PC boards, drilled them by hand and
soldered in the chips by hand. I wrote a series of diagnostics for
them.
Do any survive? I've looked for them but never found one.