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From: ken@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Mythical microprocessors
Keywords: Linc Eight
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Date: 5 Aug 88 13:23:20 GMT
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In article <677@buengc.BU.EDU> bph@buengc.UUCP (Blair P. Houghton) writes
about `Mythical microprocessors'.

The first computer I ever used, in about 1970, was called the `Linc
Eight', a machine the size of a wardrobe with 4K of memory in real
ferrite core store and inch-wide Dec-tape.  I imagined the name `Linc
Eight' (Linc being an abbreviation of Laboratory INstrument Computer) to
be the most recent in a line of successively improving models, starting
with the Linc One, the Linc Two and the Linc Three, through the Linc
Four, and the Linc Five, and ending up with the Linc Six, the Linc Seven
and the culmination of the dynasty, the Linc Eight. 

Alas, the Linc Eight was a half-and-half mixture of two older machines:
the Linc for one, and the PDP-8 for two.  So the Linc One, Two, Three
etc.  never existed. 
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