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    Boeing’s PDP-7a

    Boeing News – November 14, 1968 In November 1968, Boeing engineers demonstrated to Brigadier General Mahlon E. Gates, Commanding General of the Army’s Sentinel Logistics Command, a hybrid computing system built around a DEC PDP-7A and a Type 340 graphics display. The PDP-7A functioned as an interactive front-end processor, handling light-pen input and real-time display…

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    Past Events

    This BLOG entry features summaries of past events where ICM has participated as an exhibitor. For archives of Interim Computer Festival please visit https://sdf.org/icf Vintage Computer Festival MidWest – September 13th – 14th, 2025 Schaumburg ILL The table featured 3 terminals connected to the remote systems with volunteers Jim Mazurek and Gary Solomon. Gary also…

  • Current Exhibits

    This post documents most of the current exhibits as well as preserves what has been on display and highlights what is new. It is organized as top being the current exhibition organized in groups by area. All exhibits are considered permanent unless noted as a rotating exhibit. Remotely accessible machines are noted as OnLINE. August…

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    MIT-MC.ARPA

    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 and collaborative computing environment where many pioneering software systems…

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    Centurion Computer Corporation

    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 microseconds. It supported both fixed-point and limited floating-point arithmetic…

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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…

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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…