TX-2 Project

Re-creating the historically important TX-2 computer

People

This page contains some information about people who worked on the TX-2.

Wesley A. Clark

  1. Wikipedia page for Wesley A. Clark.
  2. Digibarn’s Memories and Tributes for Wesley A. Clark.
  3. Masic I. The Most Influential Scientists in the Development of Medical Informatics (33): Wesley Allison Clark (1927-2016). Acta Inform Med. 2022 Sep;30(3):251-252. doi:10.5455/aim.2022.30.251-252. PMID: 36311154; PMCID: PMC9559876. (PDF)
  4. New York Times obituary. Markoff, John; 2016-02-27.

Leonard Kleinrock

  1. Wikipedia page for Leonard Kleinrock.

Severo Ornstein

  1. Wikipedia page for Severo Ornstein
  2. Oral history interview with Severo Ornstein, 1990-03-06, Charles Babbage Institute. (pdf)
  3. Ornstein, Severo oral history, 2015-11-20, Computer History Museum. (transcript)

Ivan E. Sutherland

Author of Sketchpad and pioneer in computer graphics.

  1. Wikipedia page on Ivan E. Sutherland.
  2. Oral history interview with Ivan Sutherland at Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
  3. Ivan Edward Sutherland, OH 171. Oral history interview by William Aspray, 1 May 1989, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Charles Babbage Institute, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. http://purl.umn.edu/107642

Work on Sketchpad

See also Sketchpad videos.

  1. Sketchpad, A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System, Ph.D thesis of Ivan Edward Sutherland, January 7, 1963.
  2. Sketchpad: A Man-Machine Graphical Communication System, Lincoln Laboratory Technical Report 296, January 30, 1963.
  3. Sketchpad listings and memoranda pertaining to TX-2 computer and programming. Computer History Museum; catalog number 102726903.

Alexander Vanderburgh

  1. Alexander Vanderburgh Obituary, reproduced from The Boston Globe 2014-11-04.
  2. Smithsonian’s Documents Relating to a 1958 High School Course in Computers; the course was taught by Alexander Vanderburgh.