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[ih] Datacomputer [an aside, was: Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet -- Some Questions]
- Subject: [ih] Datacomputer [an aside, was: Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet -- Some Questions]
- From: mfidelman at meetinghouse.net (Miles Fidelman)
- Date: Sat, 14 Apr 2018 12:58:50 -0400
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Hi Jack,
On 4/14/18 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.
>
I could have sworn that the DataComputer was CCA.? (Whatever happened to
CCA, anyway?)
Miles
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