[ih] SDC IMP?

[Karl Auerbach]

Hmmm, I managed some of the computers (PDP 11/40 then 45 then 70) used 
by the "continuous speech recognition" project.  The name I remember is 
Iris Kameny (sp).  Billy Breckenridge also worked on it. I also remember 
the name Mort Bernstein.  (We had a really nice soundproof room and 
graphical displays - it was used in a movie about searching for bigfoot. 
;-)  Those machines weren't hooked to an IMP.

I believe that we did have a "Santa Barbara box" - which, if I remember 
correctly was an IBM channel-to-IMP interface - from Roland Bryan's crew 
at ACC in Santa Barbara.   That was "owned" by Lee Mo (or Moho?).  But 
it seemed to be not in use during my time, although there was a lot of 
active work being done on one of the IBM 360 machines (probably the /67) 
that used a lot of LISP stuff.  I can't remember the name of the person 
who ran that project, but I do remember he smoked really foul cigars and 
had a sofa in his office that was utterly saturated with cigar smoke.

The networking and operating system R&D group at SDC wasn't all that 
large and we were all concentrated into one floor of the main building 
(until we expanded into a secured space in the Q7 building (named after 
the Q7 SAGE computer) for the Blacker secure OS and networking project 
later in the 1970's.)

I found (and bought) a book about SDC, but it barely touches on 
networking at all.

     --karl--

On 3/11/19 11:28 PM, Steve Crocker wrote:
> I can add that SDC was one of the five major speech understanding research projects that IPTO sponsored during the 1971-76 timeframe. I don’t have a specific visual recall of their network interactions, but they could not have been part of the project without a working network connection.  (I was the program manager for this work from 1971 to 1974.)
>
> Steve
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Mar 12, 2019, at 2:41 PM, Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com> wrote:
>>
>> Some very early maps of the ARPAnet show an IMP at SDC (System
>> Development Corporation) in Santa Monica.
>>
>> However, during my time there (roughly 1971 through 1980) I never saw
>> hide nor hair of one (and given that our group under Clark Weissman and
>> Gerry Cole was the group involved with these sorts of things, we would
>> have been the group that would most likely have known about it.)
>>
>> Does anyone know more about the SDC IMP?  Did it actually exist? If so,
>> any details?
>>
>>          --karl--
>>
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