[HN Gopher] Laboratory Instrument Computer LINC: "The Genesis of...
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       Laboratory Instrument Computer LINC: "The Genesis of a
       Technological Revolution"
        
       Author : Hooke
       Score  : 19 points
       Date   : 2022-01-02 06:39 UTC (16 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (history.nih.gov)
 (TXT) w3m dump (history.nih.gov)
        
       | kevin_thibedeau wrote:
       | > 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.
        
         | fuzzfactor wrote:
         | 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?
        
       | broswell wrote:
       | 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!
        
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