On 11/15/2017 10:11 PM, Brian L. Stuart via cctalk wrote:
On Wed, 11/15/17, Jon Elson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
PDP-5 and LINC certainly fit that requirement.
Funny the LINC should come up tonight. Earlier this evening
I went to a talk given by Mary Allen Wilkes who was the
developer of the system software for the LINC. She had one
in her parents' house around the 1965 timeframe. Here's
a pic of her with that machine.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2c/Mary_Allen_Wilkes_-_LINC_at_Home_-_1965.jpg
Hard not to call the LINC "personal" in that context.
Oh, wow! I had no idea she was still around! We had a
memorial service for Wesley Clark about a year ago, he did
most of the design of the LINC. The LINC was pretty
revolutionary for user interface on a small, 12-bit computer.
You got a 5" oscilloscope screen with about 12 short lines
of characters to edit, see the file directory, etc. It
could also be used to display graphs.
Jon
Jon
