MIT Lincoln Laboratory, also known as Lincoln Lab, is a federally funded research and development center managed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and primarily funded by the United States Department of Defense.... TX-2computer
Computer
A computer is a machine that manipulates Data according to a list of Code .The first devices that resemble modern computers date to the mid-20th century , although the computer concept and various machines similar to computers existed earlier.... was the successor to the Lincoln TX-0
TX-0
The TX-0, for Transistorized Experimental computer zero but affectionately referred to as tixo , was an early fully transistorized computer and contained a then-huge 64kilo of 18-bit words of core memory.... and was known for its role in advancing both artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it. Major AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents,"... and human-computer interaction. The TX-2 was a transistor
Transistor
In electronics, a transistor is a semiconductor device commonly used to Electronic amplifier or switch Electronics signals. A transistor is made of a solid piece of a semiconductor material, with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit.... -based computer using the then-huge amount of 64K
Kilo
Kilo is a SI prefix in the SI and other systems of units denoting 1 E3 or 1,000. For example:* one kilogram is 1,000 grams* one kilometre is 1,000 metres... 36-bit words
36-bit word length
Many early computers aimed at the scientific market had a 36-bit word . This word length was just long enough to represent positive and negative integers to an accuracy of ten decimal digits .... of core memory. Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Edward Sutherland is an United States computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers.... 's revolutionary Sketchpad
Sketchpad
Sketchpad was a revolutionary computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis, for which he received the Turing Award in 1988.... program ran on the TX-2.
MIT Lincoln Laboratory, also known as Lincoln Lab, is a federally funded research and development center managed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and primarily funded by the United States Department of Defense.... TX-2computer
Computer
A computer is a machine that manipulates Data according to a list of Code .The first devices that resemble modern computers date to the mid-20th century , although the computer concept and various machines similar to computers existed earlier.... was the successor to the Lincoln TX-0
TX-0
The TX-0, for Transistorized Experimental computer zero but affectionately referred to as tixo , was an early fully transistorized computer and contained a then-huge 64kilo of 18-bit words of core memory.... and was known for its role in advancing both artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence
Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science which aims to create it. Major AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents,"... and human-computer interaction. The TX-2 was a transistor
Transistor
In electronics, a transistor is a semiconductor device commonly used to Electronic amplifier or switch Electronics signals. A transistor is made of a solid piece of a semiconductor material, with at least three terminals for connection to an external circuit.... -based computer using the then-huge amount of 64K
Kilo
Kilo is a SI prefix in the SI and other systems of units denoting 1 E3 or 1,000. For example:* one kilogram is 1,000 grams* one kilometre is 1,000 metres... 36-bit words
36-bit word length
Many early computers aimed at the scientific market had a 36-bit word . This word length was just long enough to represent positive and negative integers to an accuracy of ten decimal digits .... of core memory. Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Sutherland
Ivan Edward Sutherland is an United States computer scientist and Internet pioneer. He received the Turing Award in 1988 for the invention of Sketchpad, an early predecessor to the sort of graphical user interface that has become ubiquitous in personal computers.... 's revolutionary Sketchpad
Sketchpad
Sketchpad was a revolutionary computer program written by Ivan Sutherland in 1963 in the course of his PhD thesis, for which he received the Turing Award in 1988.... program ran on the TX-2. The TX-2 became operational in 1958. The Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Equipment Corporation was a pioneering United States company in the computer industry. It is often referred to within the computing industry as DEC .... was a spin-off
Spin-off
A spin-off is a new organization or entity formed by a split from a larger one, such as a television series based on a pre-existing one, or a new company formed from a university research group or business incubator.... of the TX-0 and TX-2 projects. A TX-1 was planned as the successor for the TX-0, but it was deemed to be too ambitious of a project and was scaled back to the TX-2.
The TX-2 Tape System
TX-2 Tape System
The TX-2 Tape System was a magnetic tape data storage technology from the late 1950s. It is the direct ancestor of LINCtape, used on the LINC laboratory computer.... was a block addressable 1/2" tape developed for the TX-2 by Tom Stockebrand which evolved into LINCtape and DECtape
DECtape
DECtape, originally called Microtape, was a magnetic tape data storage medium used with many Digital Equipment Corporation computers, including the PDP-6, PDP-8, LINC-8, PDP-10, PDP-11, PDP-12, and the PDP-15....
