[ih] Datacomputer

Lars Brinkhoff lars at nocrew.org
Thu Mar 6 22:26:57 PST 2025


Jack Haverty wrote:
> A little history -- Back in the mid-70s, Lick (Licklider) had a vision
> of human-human communications which included the ability for
> "important" content to be copied to The Datacomputer, where it could
> be accessible, and even searchable, for posterity.

Computer Corporation of America, with offices at Tech Square, ran the
Datacomputer.  It was a TENEX machine fitted with an Ampex tape-based
"Terabit Memory"[*].  Indeed much data was placed there, like ARPANET
survey data and backup copies of early CLU versions.

* https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/1476706.1476771


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