MIT-MC.ARPA
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MIT-MC.ARPA

This system has 0 sponsors yielding $0.00/mo in support. MIT-MC.ARPA was a DECSYSTEM-10 KL10 Model 1080 operated by the MIT MACSYMA Consortium, serving as one of the most significant systems in the development of AI and symbolic computation during the 1970s and early 1980s. Running the Incompatible Timesharing System (ITS), MC provided a uniquely open…

Centurion Computer Corporation
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Centurion Computer Corporation

This system has 0 sponsors yielding $0.00/mo in support. The Centurion Computer Corporation CPU-6 was a mid-1970s minicomputer designed primarily for industrial control, data acquisition, and real-time processing applications. Built using TTL logic and early LSI components, the CPU-6 featured a 16-bit architecture with a relatively fast instruction cycle for its time, often under 2…

Thinking Machines Connection Machine 2
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Thinking Machines Connection Machine 2

Thinking Machines Connection Machine 2 (CM-2) Preservation of this artifact is made possible through a donation from the Amara Foundation. Introduced: 1987Manufacturer: Thinking Machines Corporation (Founded by Danny Hillis and Sheryl Handler)Architecture: Massively parallel SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) Principal Designers & Contributors Danny Hillis is a computer scientist, inventor, and entrepreneur best known as the visionary behind the Connection…

Archiving DECtapes
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Archiving DECtapes

Support for the project comes from your donations DECtape is a block-oriented magnetic media format more akin to the floppy disk than 9 track tape. There are four prevailing formats: LINC, 18, 16 and 12 bit. For years DEC distributed diagnostics, system distributions and sources on DECtape and our library consists of somewhere between 500…