A cultural item missing from the MIT side of the history: The Lisp machines at the MIT AI Lab were named. First, the names were all dead rock stars (I was the

A cultural item missing from the MIT side of the history: The Lisp machines at the MIT AI Lab were named. First, the names were all dead rock stars (I was there in the 80s, so Hendrix, Joplin ...). Eventually there were enough machines that the namespace needed to be expanded, so dead actors were added to the list (Sinatra...). Some wag decided Reagan, who was president at the time, had done enough unpopular things to universities that he deserved to be added to the namespace. It was all fun and games until one of the funding agents was on a tour, saw the Reagan machine, and put it together. Edit: All above IIRC. It was a whlie ago.