Michigan State Intregral Computer
MISTIC was a copy of the ILLIAC from the University of Illinois. The ILLIAC was a descendant of the IAS from Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University. The ILLIAC was also a copy of the ORDVAC (also built by the University of Illinois) and served as the blueprint for quite a large number of computers built around the world at that time.
Here is a section on MISTIC from a March 1961 report from the Ballistic Research Laboratories.
Some pictures of a section of one of the registers from MISTIC.
A list of the MISTIC Library Routines from the "MISTIC PROGRAMMING MANUAL" published by MSU.
The pictures below come from the "Spartan Engineer" publication
from the MSU Engineering Dept of the time.
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Spartan Engineer Nov 57 - Cover
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Nov 1957 The caption reads: "Picture of Michigan State Integral Computer being tested by Richard Reid, Instructor in Electrical Engineering." |
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Spartan Engineer Nov 57 - Page 19
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Nov 1957 The caption reads: "[...] with Dr Lawrence W. Von Tersch, director of the Computer Laboratory" |
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Spartan Engineer Jan 59 - Page 12
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Jan 1959
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Spartan Engineer Jan 59 - Page 13
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Jan 1959 The caption reads: "The perforator provides a means of copying or correcting programming tapes." |
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Spartan Engineer Jan 59 - Page 13
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Jan 1959 "distribution of machine time" |
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Spartan Engineer Jan 59 - Page 13
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Jan 1959 The caption reads: "The computer, located in a climate-controlled room is always visible to the programmer in the adjacent working spaces" |
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Spartan Engineer Jan 59 - Page 13
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Jan 1959 The caption reads: "The Teletype machine serves as an interpreter between the tape and the programmer." |
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Spartan Engineer Nov 61 - Page 21
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Nov 1961
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