The mothers of modern minicomputers: MIT Lincoln Labs’ Whirlwind (ancestor of SAGE and most minicomputers to come), Memory Test Computer (used to test Whirlwind’s core memory), TX-0 and TX-2 (transistorized versions of Whirlwind, direct ancestors of the DEC PDP line).
Images taken from Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems Design
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