[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]
[ih] Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet -- Some Questions
- Subject: [ih] Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet -- Some Questions
- From: dave.walden.family at gmail.com (Dave Walden)
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 07:15:18 -0400
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
- References: <CA+CiqoUyP1aPC2vG1DPAH5oGH7enGcpH9N7=NJKXQxr7sLddyQ@mail.gmail.com> <[email protected]>
Jack,
My memory is that CCA (Computer Corporation of America -- Tom Merrill's
company) did the DataComputer.? They might also have been at 545 Tech
Square at the time but I am unsure of that.? IBM (the "Cambridge
Scientific" lab?) was also there (as you note) and did other important
things (my memory is vague, so I am uncertain of the following things
... the beginning of CP/CMS operating system, Script text processing
system, creation of GML, I think they may also have had the other CTSS
system, etc.) but I don't remember this group being connected to the
ARPANET (IBM was pushing SNA -- proprietary networking).
Dave
On 4/14/2018 3:36 AM, Jack Haverty wrote:
> Lick's group was part of Project MAC, aka LCS (Laboratory for Computer
> Science), It occupied part of 545 Technology Square, along with the MIT
> AI Lab. LCS had many subgroups. In addition, the building complex
> housed an IBM research group (that did the DataComputer, which was
> attached to the ARPANET), and even a stealth office of the CIA (really -
> but that's another story), which I accidentally "outed" one day while
> trying to run computer cables up to the roof through the elevator shaft.
> Oops.
>