TX-2
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The TX-2 was an early transistor computer; it was a follow-on to the ground-breaking TX-0 at the MIT Lincoln Laboratory.
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.
Further reading
Some background about the end of the construction of the TX-2 is given in:
- Severo M. Ornstein, "Computing in the Middle Ages"
External links
- Bitsavers TX-2 documents
- The LINC Was Early and Small - lengthy personal memoir by Wesley Clark; it also mentions the TX-2
