TX-2 - Revision history

Larsbrinkhoff: /* External links */ I find the use of "imput" quite charming.

2025-11-20T10:39:58Z

‎External links: I find the use of "imput" quite charming.

2025-11-19T10:26:07Z

Link to meta key.

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Talk to the Meta Hand.

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Its most important contributions were in software

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‎External links: +A collection of images

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+Important applications developed on it

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‎External links: +TX-2 Circuitry Handbook

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‎External links: Simulation project.

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‎Further reading: link to online copy

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Not so early

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 * [https://tx-2.github.io/ TX-2 simulation project]
 ** [https://tx-2.github.io/documentation/ TX-2 Documentation]
 [[Category: Mainframes]]
 [[Category: 36-bit Computers]]
 [[Category: Unique Computers]]

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 The TX-2's [[magnetic tape]] [[mass storage]] system, created by Tom Stockebrand, used 1/2" tape, but was block addressable, unlike most magnetic tape systems, which could only write sequentially. He later moved to the [[LINC]] project, along with several other TX-2 alumni, where he helped create the descendant [[LINC tape]] system; he then moved to [[DEC]], where he helped create [[DECtape]], very similar to LINCtape.
-The Lincoln Writer was used with the TX-2 as a [[printing terminal]].  Its [[keyboard]] had a right-pointing manicule called the "Meta Hand", and was used to indicate an "aside" such as entering a "meta" command.
+The Lincoln Writer was used with the TX-2 as a [[printing terminal]].  Its [[keyboard]] had a right-pointing manicule called the [[Meta key|"Meta Hand"]], and was used to indicate an "aside" such as entering a "meta" command.
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	The TX-2's [[magnetic tape]] [[mass storage]] system, created by Tom Stockebrand, used 1/2" tape, but was block addressable, unlike most magnetic tape systems, which could only write sequentially. He later moved to the [[LINC]] project, along with several other TX-2 alumni, where he helped create the descendant [[LINC tape]] system; he then moved to [[DEC]], where he helped create [[DECtape]], very similar to LINCtape.		The TX-2's [[magnetic tape]] [[mass storage]] system, created by Tom Stockebrand, used 1/2" tape, but was block addressable, unlike most magnetic tape systems, which could only write sequentially. He later moved to the [[LINC]] project, along with several other TX-2 alumni, where he helped create the descendant [[LINC tape]] system; he then moved to [[DEC]], where he helped create [[DECtape]], very similar to LINCtape.
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		+	The Lincoln Writer was used with the TX-2 as a [[printing terminal]]. Its [[keyboard]] had a right-pointing manicule called the "Meta Hand", and was used to indicate an "aside" such as entering a "meta" command.

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 [[Image:TX-2 module top.jpg|250px|thumb|right|TX-2 plug-in module]]
-The '''TX-2''' was an early [[transistor]] computer; it was a follow-on to the ground-breaking [[TX-0]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] [[Lincoln Laboratory]]. Innovations around [[interrupt]]s used on the TX-2 wee an important predecessor to the [[PDP-1]].
+The '''TX-2''' was an early [[transistor]] computer; it was a follow-on to the ground-breaking [[TX-0]] at the [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology|MIT]] [[Lincoln Laboratory]]. Innovations around [[interrupt]]s used on the TX-2 were an important predecessor to the [[PDP-1]]. Its most important contributions were in the [[software]] developed on it.
 The TX-2's [[magnetic tape]] [[mass storage]] system, created by Tom Stockebrand, used 1/2" tape, but was block addressable, unlike most magnetic tape systems, which could only write sequentially. He later moved to the [[LINC]] project, along with several other TX-2 alumni, where he helped create the descendant [[LINC tape]] system; he then moved to [[DEC]], where he helped create [[DECtape]], very similar to LINCtape.
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 * [https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/nets/timesharing.htm Who invented Timesharing]
 * [https://tx-2.github.io/ TX-2 simulation project]
 [[Category: Mainframes]]
 [[Category: 36-bit Computers]]
 [[Category: Unique Computers]]

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 * [http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/tx-2/ Bitsavers TX-2 documents]
 * [http://bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/lincolnLaboratory/division_6/6D-2631_TX-2_Circuitry_Handbook_Oct1958.pdf TX-2 Circuitry Handbook]
 * [https://www.digibarn.com/stories/linc/documents/LINC-Personal-Workstation/LINC-Personal-Workstation.pdf The LINC Was Early and Small] - lengthy personal memoir by Wesley Clark; it also mentions the TX-2
 * [https://web.stanford.edu/~learnest/nets/timesharing.htm Who invented Timesharing]

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 ==Further reading==
-* Severo M. Ornstein, "''Computing in the Middle Ages: A View From the Trenches 1955-1983''" (AuthorHouse, 2002) - Some background about the end of the construction of the TX-2
+* Severo M. Ornstein, [https://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/2019/03/102785079-05-01-acc.pdf ''Computing in the Middle Ages: A View From the Trenches 1955-1983''] (AuthorHouse, 2002) - Some background about the end of the construction of the TX-2
 ==External links==