Our AI-Lab at that time proposed the university to buy the CM-1 for frontier computing research.
Sadly central computing budgets back then were (and maybe still are) dominated by the physics department which decided on a boring old Cray X-MP instead.
that's cool. I am reading a Brian Eno biography now, he learned 1970ish to concentrate on processes and systems, not on end results- same vibe here, just make it work and the applications will follow?
Sadly central computing budgets back then were (and maybe still are) dominated by the physics department which decided on a boring old Cray X-MP instead.