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TOPS-20 machines at MIT #2127

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gregbo commented 1 year ago

MIT-EECS may have come online in 1980. I remember in the spring of 1980 while taking the SICP class, some problem sets could be implemented on it. This was part of a transition from running the class on a PDP-11/45 to the KL10.

eswenson1 commented 1 year ago

This machine was more frequently referred to as MIT-EE or simply EE. I remember having an account there and getting to it primarily through MC via chaosnet.

gregbo commented 1 year ago

OK. As I recall, the machine was known by various names at various times. For example, in a post I made to the human-nets list in the fall of 1982, the address presented to the list was . (If this looks funny, it's because this was pre-DNS.) Also, sometime in 1981, the people running the EECS computing facility decided to adopt the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy theme. Many of the systems were renamed or aliased, including MIT-EE, which went by the name MIT-DEEP-THOUGHT for awhile also. The "good luck" chain letter originated on that machine also; note many addresses from/to it.

larsbrinkhoff commented 1 year ago

Thank you. Sometimes the multitude of aliases can be confusing. Another one is the BLT (Brave Little Toaster) DEC-2020 which I believe was also named LSD. Further away, SU-AI was the official name for the Stanford AI PDP-10, but SAIL was common.