On 12/16/2015 11:01 AM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
Anywho, I was looking at a couple of 19" racks containing
an odd computer of some sort. Had this funny square
keyboard, and what looked like LINCTapes to me. Looked
kinda "home brew", using DEC Flip Chips. Well a couple of
years later I saw a photo of a LINC, and then it was "head
slap" time - I realized I had passed up a LINC. Could have
had it for $25. I fear it was probably scrapped. Sigh.
A Classic LINC used "system building blocks", generally
single-sided boards with an aluminum frame around the board,
and a single-row 22-pin connector that was a separate piece,
not a card-edge connector.
The little keyboard on the Classic LINC was made by Soroban,
and it was indeed funny. Each keystroke locked the
keyboard, and when the program picked up the character from
the buffer, the keyboard unlocked. The delay was often
heard, as LAP-6 spent 99% of the time refreshing the screen.
If it was real flip-chip modules with the little molded
plastic handle, that would have been a LINC-8 or PDP-12.
Jon
