- TX-2
:"This article is about the Computer. For the Texas district, see
United States House of Representatives, Texas District 2 " TheMIT Lincoln Laboratory TX-2computer was the successor to the LincolnTX-0 and was known for its role in advancing bothartificial intelligence andhuman-computer interaction . The TX-2 was atransistor -based computer using the then-huge amount of 64K 36-bit words ofcore memory .Ivan Sutherland 's revolutionarySketchpad program ran on the TX-2. The TX-2 became operational in1958 . TheDigital Equipment Corporation was aspin-off of the TX-0 and TX-2 projects. A TX-1 was planned as the successor for the TX-0, but it was deemed to be too ambitious of a project and was scaled back to the TX-2.TheTX-2 Tape System was a block addressable 1/2" tape developed for the TX-2 by Tom Stockebrand which evolved intoLINCtape andDECtape External links
* [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/mit/tx-2 TX-2 documentation at bitsavers.org]
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