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

[David Walden]

Yes, the DataComputer was from CCA.  There is a paper on the net by Tom Marill and a coauthor about the DataComputer.  My memory is that CCA was sold to a Canadian company and the CCA founders cashed out.

On April 14, 2018, at 1:17 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net> wrote:

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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