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
TX-0
- TX-0 Wikipedia page
- Simulators
- Angelo Papenhoff’s simulator: video, project page
- Another simulator by 新保 顕理 (Akiyoshi Shinpo): web page, video, announcement
- The TX-0: Its Past and Present
- Bitsavers: TX-0 resources, TX-0 programs.
- tixo.org (archived)
FX-1
- The FX-1 Computer at Lincoln Laboratory, John A, Kessler, Computers and Automation, October 1961, Volume 10, Issue 10 (page 1B).
- MIT Technology Review, Volume 64 Issue 1, November 1961 (page 30): This Year’s Fastest Computer.
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: A Case History in Contermporary Technology. Kent C. Redmond and Thomas M. Smith, November 1975
- 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
MANIAC II
The MANIAC II at Los Alamos had a memory whose design was adapted from the coincident-current memory of the TX-2. See Digital Comptuter Newsletter, Volume 12, No. 2, April 1960 also via bitkeepers.