Re: Looking for an old A2 program

["Joel" <joelbuckley54.nospam.@hotmail.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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>And courtesy should certainly be offered to posters who have
>contributed greatly to the Apple II universe, like Val Golding and
>Andy McFadden.

Amen, Michael.
Before the internet, Call Apple was the way to "network" with other Apple 2
users.


> The MAC I was referring to was not the Macintosh, but MIT's Project MAC
> (for Mathematics and Computation), which was a very influential early
> experiment in timesharing in the US.  It was done in the early- to
mid-60s.
> The hardware hosting it was a modified IBM 7094.

My memory's a little hazy, but when I was at MIT (72-77) I seem to remember
Project MAC having a different meaning-maybe Man and Computer?

It's interesting how things have come full circle.
Back then, a lot of MAC was about setting up a computer network (one
computer and many dumb terminals).
Time share (Multics)
There was one teletype terminal in the dorm (for 320 students). Quite a big
deal compared to the normal routine of stacks of punch cards.
Then with the microprocessor and the personal computer, independent,
individual computing came to the fore.
Now with the internet, it's back to the network model again.