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There is a room mentioned in the document (p23): "NE43-829". Is this at MIT? It says a manual for Macsyma exists there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma
by xrd 8y ago
There is a room mentioned in the document (p23): "NE43-829". Is this at MIT?
It says a manual for Macsyma exists there.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macsyma
"...one of the oldest general-purpose computer algebra systems which is still widely used. It was originally developed from 1968 to 1982 at MIT's Project MAC."
Is this a real room at MIT? Can someone at MIT check to see if the manual is still there? I'd like to borrow it.
- gumby 8y agoThat was a room on the 8th floor of tech square (almost the entire 9th floor, the top of that building, was machine room). Tech square was an office complex built in anticipation of the space program. Then JFK was assassinated and LBJ moved mission control and all that stuff to Texas. NE43 was the name of 545 Main st. MIT had a bunch of floors, first 8&9, then 3 (CIA had the other half for a long time), then 7. I think Honeywell had an office there too, perhaps in one of the other buildings, because of the Multics project.