LINC
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The LINC is a 12-bit, 2048-word transistorized computer. The LINC is considered by some to be the first minicomputer and a forerunner to the personal computer. Originally named the Linc, suggesting th
LINC home computer with its software designer, Mary Allen Wilkes, 1965
LINC computer at the Computer History Museum
Console of the LINC at System Source Computer Museum
The rotary knobs on the front panel could be used as a dial box. (Photo of LINC-8)
PDP-8
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The PDP-8 is a family of 12-bit minicomputers that was produced by Digital Equipment Corporation. Launched in 1965, it was the first minicomputer to sell for under $20,000, and the $25,000 mark for a
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…provided the ideas for DEC's second and third machines, the PDP-4 and the PDP-5. Digital Equipment Corporation would launch the extremely successful PDP-8 before it manufactured the first next-generation LINC-compatible computer, the LINC-8, which had both a PDP-8 CPU and a LINC CPU, only one of which…
A PDP-8 on display at The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley, England. This example is from the first generation of PDP-8s, built with discrete transistors and later known as the Straight 8.
An open PDP-8/E with its logic modules behind the front panel and one dual TU56 DECtape drive at the top
A "Straight-8" running at the Stuttgart Computer Museum
PDP-8/e at the Living Computers Museum