Charles Molnar

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.

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 Corporation and other computer manufacturers.

When he died in 1996, he was working at Sun Microsystems on asynchronous circuits with Ivan Sutherland.