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…
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…
Thinking Machines Connection Machine 2 (CM-2) (The CM-2 is currently in preservation storge through our Sponsor a Computer program) 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 Machine,…