thelinuxlink.net

greggh wrote:Happened to stumble across this while reading "A trip down computer memory lane"

http://news.com.com/A+trip+down+compute ... g=nefd.top

http://www.digibarn.com/stories/linc/index.html


The Restoration of the LINC,
the "World's First Personal Computer"(and its place in History)

(Laboratory Instrument Computer) was a 12-bit, 2048-word computer. The LINC and the PDP-8 can be considered the first mini computers and perhaps the first personal computers as well. Although its instruction set was small, it was larger than the ingenious and tiny PDP-8 instruction set.

The LINC sold for about $50,000. It interfaced well with laboratory experiments. Analog inputs and outputs were part of the basic design. It was designed in 1962 by Charles Molnar and Wesley Clark at Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts (Part of MIT), for NIH researchers.