Charles Edwin Molnar (
1935–
1996) was a co-developer of one of the first
minicomputers, the
LINC (Laboratory Instrument Computer), while a graduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1962. His collaborator was
Wesley A. Clark. The LINC originated decades before the advent of the personal computer. Its development was the result of a
National Institutes of Health (NIH) program that placed 20 copies of an early LINC prototype in selected biomedical research laboratories nationwide. Later, the LINC was produced in greater numbers by Digital Equipment Corp. and other computer manufacturers. Later he was on the faculty of
Washington University.
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