MIT Museum

Some freshman have brought their own computers to M.I.T. This one, which plays checkers, is now in Boston's Museum of Science. David Ecklein '63, its builder, is shown explaining it to a museum visitor.

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Aerodynamics section of computer. [ME_0364]

An MIT graduate student at work on his thesis project, designing new electronic components for the analogue computer in the Dynamic Analysis and Control Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. [ME_0373]

C. Harvey Willson, technical assistant, instructs a student in the use of this IBM 1620 computer located in the Sloan Building [dept_sloan_34250_A]

C. Harvey Willson, technical assistant, instructs a student in the use of this IBM 1620 computer located in the Sloan Building [dept_sloan_34260_B]

Carolyn Griffith, Beverly Torner, Myer Kessler

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Dan Edwards and Peter Samson playing Spacewar! on the PDP-1 Type 30 display. [caption from Computer History Museum]

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Image of students working at computers as part of Project Athena. Project Athena was an exploratory program aimed at determining how best to integrate the computers into the MIT curriculum. The project ran from 1983-1991 and resulted in the establishment of a is a campus-wide networked computer system.

In this computer of the flight simulator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, engineers "set up" certain characteristics of an aircraft whose flight performance is to be checked by the machine. The computer, developed in the Dynamic Analysis and Control Laboratory at MIT, contains electronic elements for adding, multiplying, and integrating, all necessary to solve the complex problems of how an airplane would fly under specified conditions of speed, altitude, and control. [ME_0367]

Ivan Sutherland working at computer [IES1]

Jonathan Morey (right), a graduate student in mechanical engineering operates a simple analogue computer in a mechanical engineering dynamics laboratory. [ME_0077]

Kenneth L. Lebsock, '60 a graduate student is shown using the EPL's general purpose analogue computer to isolate spots in the control systems of a radar-tracking antenna. His master's thesis deals with an azimuthal control system. [ME_0518]

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Missile Computer Turned to peaceful uses. Pat Peterson, 23, of San Carlos Calif., (bottom) and Stephen Tepper, 22, of Wheaton, MD. (top), are shown with the obsolete Minuteman I guidance computer they have converted into a general purpose computer accessible via the teletypewriter (below).

PDP-1 Computer [PDP-1_004]

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R. Price and P. E. Green, Jr., checking results of Venus observations taken by Lincoln Laboratory Millstone Hill Radar Observatory [PEGreen_01]

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Sloan School 1979

Some freshman have brought their own computers to M.I.T. This one, which plays checkers, is now in Boston's Museum of Science. David Ecklein '63, its builder, is shown explaining it to a museum visitor.

Spacewar! on PDP-1 [PDP-1_003]

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The data link to the IBM 1620 computer, at left, permits the testing of models nearby or from another laboratory. Here, a test is run on a cantilevered beam in foreground. March 1965. [CV_313]

The flight table of the flight simulator in the Dynamic Analysis and Control Laboratory at MIT is shown here from the control panel of the analogue computer of which it is a part. The gimbal frame in the background responds to the various commands given from this board to the theoretical aircraft whose characteristics have been given to the machine. [ME_0363]

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Wheeler X. Johnson, RCA Fellow, at the control panel of an analog computer in the Servomechanisms Laboratory. May 15, 1956