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unusual facts about Project MAC



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.


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Keydata Corporation

Keydata was located in Technology Square in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where project MAC, the seminal venture sponsored by MIT which saw the developmemt of MULTICS one of the earliest time sharing software systems.

MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

One of the early focuses of Project MAC would be the development of a successor to CTSS, Multics, which was to be the first high availability computer system, developed as a part of an industry consortium including General Electric and Bell Laboratories.