Many thanks to Martin Brachwitz who donated a Model-3 Ivory Card.

I recommend Rainer Joswig's home page for additional material (see, e.g., here).

Symbolics Lisp Machine Museum provided by Ralf Möller

Symbolics Inc. was the premier producer of general-purpose computer systems for running and developing state-of-the-art object-oriented programs in Lisp. It designed and built workstations as well as writing a fully object-oriented operating system and development environment called "Genera" to run on those workstations.

Symbolics Technology, Inc. is a private company which has acquired the assets of the old public company called Symbolics, Inc. Now, Open Genera is available as a software product for DEC Alpha processors. For information on latest state-of-the-art products see the home page of Symbolics Technology Inc.

Macintosh Centris (68040), Symbolics Ivory Model-3 Nubus card,
Symbolics keyboard and mouse, Sony LCD screen (picture courtesy of R. Joswig)

General Information

• What is a "Lisp Machine" (LISPM)?
• A First Glance at the Genera Development Environment
• Collection of Symbolics-Related Pointers to the Literature
• If It Works, It's Not AI: A Commercial Look at Artificial Intelligence Startups (by Eve M. Phillips)
• The Lisp Machine: Noble Experiment or Fabulous Failure? (by P.T. Withington)
• Symbolics, Inc.: A Failure of Heterogeneous Engineering (Student Project in "The Structure of Engineering Revolutions")
• Lisp Machine Supplies and Information
• Symbolics Lisp User Group (SLUG)
• Lisp and Functional Programming
• Lisp and Symbolic Computation

Hardware Exhibitions

• The 1986 Symbolics Lisp Machine Family
• A Symbolics Machine Used as a Front-End to a Connection Machine.
• A 3600 Lisp Machine
• A 3645 and a 3640 used at the Computer Science Department of the University of Hamburg
• Michael Wessel's machine
• 3645 - The ultimate reference
• The inside of a 3620 and a 3650 machine)
• Pictures of Lisp Machines at Helsinki University of Technology (including 3670 and 3620 machines
  (Courtesy of Lasse Rasinen)
• A Group of Satisfied Users with 3640 Machines
• Keyboard
• The Next Generation (UX Boards, XL400, XL1200, Mac-Ivory)
• MacIvory Model-3
• UX1200
• XL1200
• Another XL1200
• XL1201
• Zora: a Multibus II-Based Lisp machine

System Software Exhibitions

• Symbolics Technical Summary
• Genera: The Concepts
• Listener: Presentation-Based Command Shell and Read-Eval-Print Loop
• Document Examiner: A Hyperlink-Based Online Browser for Large Documents.
• The Genera Development Environment
• Source-Oriented Debugging
• CLIM: A Presentation of the Concepts Behind the Common Lisp Interface Manager, a Successor of Genera's "Dynamic Windows" System.
• Statice: An Object-Oriented Database System Based on CLOS
• CLIM is still alive
• Color System
• Pictures of the Manuals

Application Software Exhibitions

• Macsyma: Symbolic Mathematics
• Scope: Symbolic and Numeric Image Processing
• ImagCalc: Computer Vision System
• Leonardo: Computer Graphics
• Concordia: An Environment for Creating, Maintaining and Distributing Very Large Documentation Sets with Very Long Life Cycles
• KEE: Knowledge Engineering Environment
• NAOS: Trajectory Editor and Event Recognition System
• CL-HTTP: The Common Lisp HTTP Server is actively supported and therefore not really part of the museum exhibitions (but interesting for the community). It is available also for other Lisp platforms
• Joshua: An Extensible Software Product for Building and Delivering Expert System Applications
• S-Products: Computer Graphics and Animation Development Environment
• Plexi: Neural Network Simulation System

Exhibitions in Other Collections

• Retro-Computing Society of RI
• Symbolics Museum
• Photos of MacIvory boards
• Photos of keyboards and mice
• Francois-Rene Rideau's Site
• Some Pointers
• Hannu Koivisto's Site
• 3600 L-bus Board Photos
• The LOOPS Project
• Common Lisp Library for Remote System and Network Management
• The EVA (Evolving Artifact) Software Design Environment
  (for a description see also here)
• JANUS
• SiteController
• SOCCER
• WIP

Some Hacks, Private Patches and Installation Information

• lispm-init.lisp
• mouse-acceleration.lisp
• background-window.lisp
• Installation Information
• Patches from Craig Lannings's Site

Precursors and Competitors

• Alto
• LMI
• LMI
• CADR
• SIEMENS Interlisp Machine
• TI Explorer (see also here)
• XEROX AI Workstations
• Other Workstations

Software Emulators

• Explorer III

Please drop me a note if you have more articles related to the hardware and software architecture of Symbolics machines. Other material is also welcome.

Acknowledgments

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