Related Work

This page contains some information about related work and material, but which are not about the TX-2 itself. See also the Documentation page; it also includes related information.

The Videos page also contains some lectures by and about people involved with the TX-2, and several of those also include information about related systems and work. The People page contains information about the people who worked on the TX-2.

Web Sites about the TX-2

• Bill Buxton’s Resource Page on Early HCI Research by the Lincoln Lab TX-2 Group.

TX-0

• TX-0 Wikipedia page
• Simulators
  • Angelo Papenhoff’s simulator: video, project page
  • Another simulator (likely by Akiyoshi Shinpo): web page, video, announcement
• The TX-0: Its Past and Present
• Bitsavers: TX-0 resources, TX-0 programs.
• tixo.org (archived)

Whirlwind

The Whirlwind project at Lincoln Laboratory developed the Whirlwind 1 computer, the predecessor of the TX-0 and TX-2. The Whirlwind 2 evolved into the United States Air Force SAGE air defense system.

• Whirlwind 1 page at Wikipedia
• The Whirlwind Computer at CHM, Guy Fedorkow, 2018-11-30.
• Whirlwind documentation at Bitsavers.org.
• Project Whirlwind comes home, 2009-05-22.

LINC

• Wikipedia page on the LINC
• LINC Restoration Project
• LINC at Gunkies
• Conversational Access to a 2048-Word Machine, Mary Allen Wilkes, Communications of the ACM, Volume 13, Issue 7 Pages 407 - 414. https://doi.org/10.1145/362686.362690. pdf
• Emulator by Lars Brinkhoff