LINC
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thumb|LINC computer at the Computer History Museum
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Encyclopedic overview
15 sectionsContents
- Architecture
- Instruction set
- Control panel
- LINCtape
- Keyboard
- Knobs
- Text display
- Teletype output
- Laboratory interface
- Variants
- LINC-8 and PDP-12 computers
- MINC-11 computer
- See also
- References
- External links
thumb|LINC computer at the Computer History Museum
The LINC (Laboratory INstrument Computer) 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 the project's origins at MIT's Lincoln Laboratory, it was renamed LINC after the project moved from the Lincoln Laboratory. The LINC was designed by Wesley A. Clark and Charles Molnar.
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