Talk:LINC

message: It's been proposed to delete the image of the LINC used in this article, :Image:1962-linc.png, on grounds that it is not fair use and/or does not have a proper fair use rationale. Anyone know whether that would be appropriate, or have a free alternative? Martin 16:26, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image of the LINC - is it fair use? 

message: The Soroban keyboard did not have "keys with locking solenoids for each key"; instead there was one solenoid, and all the keys had slots that worked with code bars
to encode the characters and slots that caught the locking bar, which locked all the keys in one mechanical movement. As our LINC aged, it was not infrequently necessary to open it up and lubricate slides, and in one case, remove a raisin which was gumming up movement of the locking bar. 65.112.5.1 (talk) 18:38, 17 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for the correction, and the funny note about the dried fruit ("bug") in your keyboard. I have revised this section correspondingly. In our lab, our Soroban worked fine for years, but then one of our members (Mark S. Bilk) constructed a homebrew but effective KSR-35 hardware interface, and we happily discarded the Soroban. David spector (talk) 16:57, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Soroban Keyboard Solenoid 

message: The article claims that the design is public domain, but I can't find it anywhere.  Can anyone add a link to any of this material?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.69.126.85 (talk) 15:22, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Public Domain 

message: Someone is complaining about :File:Wesley A. Clark and LINC, 1962.png again. Martin (talk) 15:03, 18 February 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you for noticing this. There is actually no reason to suppose that this photograph is copyrighted. It is much more likely that the photograph was taken as part of the LINC development effort at Lincoln Labs, which was Government work and therefore not likely to be subject to copyright protection. David Spector (user/talk) 14:39, 20 February 2012 (UTC)

text: User Talk:Fastily has deleted the photograph without responding to this statement. I have made a statement on his or her Talk page requesting that the deletion be reverted. I probably need to do something to get an admin decision, otherwise this photo will always be vulnerable to deletion at any editor's whim. Can anyone help with this? I'm out of my depth here. David Spector (user/talk) 03:01, 21 February 2012 (UTC)

text: See my comments above under "Image of the LINC ... " and under "Public Domain". I don't know of any LINC-related photos that were copyrighted because the developers provided their own public domain photos for all to use. It is possible that some DEC advertising included photos they had taken and that the material had a copyright. Mopep222 (talk) 01:06, 24 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Image again 

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replies: text: Works, but the page is still present, just at a different URL; I updated the link. Guy Harris (talk) 19:38, 14 December 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links modified 

message: The article states, "The LINC and other "MIT Group" machines were designed at MIT..."
As a former programmer of LINC operating set computers, I never heard the term "MIT Group" so if there is no reference for it I would like to see it deleted (MIT Group of Institutions is unrelated to MIT). The LINC was not designed at MIT. It was designed at MIT Lincoln Lab, a defense research and development organization originally created by MIT and located to the West of Cambridge, Massachusetts (the site of MIT), and its design was inspired by the TX-0 and TX-1 computers, which were also designed there. Digital Equipment Corporation was founded by former MIT Lincoln Lab employees Ken Olsen and Harlan Anderson in 1957. If there is no response, I will do the edit myself eventually. David Spector (talk) 12:28, 18 November 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  LINC was designed at MIT Lincoln Lab 

message: The article claims that "the LINC hardware allowed a 12-bit word to be ... displayed ... as a 4-wide by 6-high matrix of pixels"
I think this is wrong. 4 * 6 pixels need 4 * 6 = 24 bits, if all combinations are possible (and I don't see any obvious doubling in the "M"). Should this read "the LINC hardware allowed a pair of 12-bit word to be ..."? Ligneus (talk) 19:12, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: The instruction to display a bit pattern displayed a matrix of 12 dot positions, each dot controlled by one bit. Two such instructions (or two words of data) were used to display any one of the 64 characters in the LINC character set, which contained the upper case letters, decimal digits, and a few special characters, such as Origin (a rectangle with a horizontal line through the middle used to set the LAP4 or LAP6 assembler to a specific octal location), lower case u (representing the disk unit bit), and lower case i (representing the indexing bit of indexed instructions). David Spector (talk) 20:49, 3 September 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Text display