[ih] Yasha Levine's Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet -- Some Questions

[Dave Walden]

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.
>