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2 unusual facts about Cambridge Scientific Center


Cambridge Scientific Center

The IBM Cambridge Scientific Center, established in February 1964 by Norm Rasmussen, was situated at 545 Technology Square (Tech Square), Cambridge, Massachusetts in the same building as MIT's Project MAC.

IBM System/370

In June 1971, on the S/370-145 (one of which had to be 'smuggled' into Cambridge Scientific Center to prevent anybody noticing the arrival of an S/370 at that hotbed of virtual memory development – since this would have signaled that the S/370 was about to receive address relocation technology).



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Paul G. Comba

He then joined IBM as a software developer, and later as a member of the IBM Cambridge Scientific Center.