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CREATED BY David Ness • LAST EDITED BY David Ness 8046 days AGO

On your LCS timeline: I don't really associate MIT LCS with [create 3Com] as it appears you are about to do. I may not know the history correctly, but I was teaching at MIT when Bob Metcalfe (who I assciate with 3Com most directly) was a student in the mid- to late- 1960s. Bob, IIRC, went to [create PARC], and I'd associate 3Com much more with PARC than with LCS.

But then that may just be 'history as I remember it'. I can look for details if you are interested.

You might also want to add the `cubes' I^3 (Information International Inc.) and C^3 (Cambridge Computer Corp). IIRC the former was a [create Fredkin] and [create Minsky] operation, and the latter was Tom Merril (sp?) and employed [create Jim Morris] for a while before he went to PARC and then, in a later life, became Chairman of CS at [create CMU].