Minicomputer, Classic LINC Computer (DEC)
date: label: date made
content: ca 1962
notes: label: Description
content: Lincoln Laboratory of MIT, introduced the LINC, a relatively small computer with a 12-bit word length, intended for use by a single scholar. In that sense, it was a personal computer, although the cost put it well outside the price range of most individuals. This example, developed as a prototype using off-the-shelf compnents from Digital Equipment Comany, sold to the laboratory of Brain Evolution and Behavior at the National Institute of Mental Health in Bethesda, Maryland. DEC would go on to build about fifty of the machines.
label: Description
content: When received at the museum, ithe deviceincluded two cabinets with fourteen connecting cables, two modular units, and a metal plate. The dimensions given are for one of the cabinets.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Medicine and Science: Computers
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content: Computers & Business Machines
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Transfer from National Institutes of Mental Health
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CI.336180
label: accession number
content: 1977.0162
label: catalog number
content: 336180
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Minicomputer
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 ft x 3 ft x 3 ft; 1.8288 m x .9144 m x .9144 m