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-5
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The PDP-5 was Digital Equipment Corporation's first 12-bit computer, introduced in 1963.
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…had a faster clock speed. While Bell in his book says designing the LINC 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…
PDP-5 at the System Source Computer Museum