There is a funny quote from David Patterson in his Oral History > There was the 801 project was secretive. There is something called the 801, “What is it?” It

There is a funny quote from David Patterson in his Oral History > There was the 801 project was secretive. There is something called the 801, “What is it?” It was very hard to know even what they were doing. It was supposed to be very exciting, very breakthrough, but unless John Cocke came and told you what they were doing, you couldn't figure out anything about it. So, there was that kind of the mystery of the 801. I think word did get out in the late 1970s but not officially!