Talk:LINC
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Early history and names
I'm curious about the source for the changes to the name.
I would tend to put a fair amount of faith in Severo Ornstein's Computing in the Middle Ages, since he was there at the time. On the other hand, that as written decades later, and his memory might have dropped a few bits. Are there some contemporary documents from Lincoln and MIT that you are relying on? I took a quick look on Bitsavers, but didn't see anything.
'Computing in the Middle Ages' confirms that the machine was initially named the 'α-Linc'. However, it insists that the name then became 'LINC' at Lincoln, shortly later (pg. 140 of the PDF). What else can I look at? Jnc (talk) 09:39, 29 October 2025 (UTC)
