[GreenKeys] OT/ It Is TELSTAR DAY! July 10, 1962. This date marks the launch of Telstar 1

[Jones, Douglas W]

On Jul 10, 2014, at 12:21 PM, Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys wrote:

> John R. Pierce of Bell Labs fame was the father of TELSTAR, and later in my life to become a great friend and of mine and a friend to the SMECC museum project.

When I was at Bell Labs, I worked on the "operating system" for
the DDP-516 computers attached to the very first Pierce Loop
computer network.  This used J. R. Pierce's slotted-ring computer
network.  The work was done under Ciecil H. Coker and Max Matthews
in Department 1227, the Accoustics Research Department.

For the writeup on J. R. Pierce's loop network, see the Bell System
Tech Journal articles by Pierce, Kropfl and Coker:
-- https://archive.org/stream/bstj51-6-1133#page/n0/mode/1up
-- https://archive.org/stream/bstj51-6-1147#page/n0/mode/1up
-- https://archive.org/stream/bstj51-6-1167#page/n0/mode/1up

I think I met Pierce once, when he was visiting in 1973.

			Doug Jones
			jones at cs.uiowa.edu