[GreenKeys] OT/ It Is TELSTAR DAY! July 10, 1962. This date marks the la...

[Ed Sharpe Archivist for SMECC via GreenKeys]

great info Doug  will add these  to  JRP's   pages...
 
 
ddp 516?  are  we  talking about the Honeywell mini?
 
California Dept  of Water resources  used Honeywell    316/516  stuff alas  
I sold them the  ones I had  back in  the late 80's  when they  needed some 
 parts....  I would  love  to find   one  one  or a 716...
 
 
In a message dated 7/10/2014 12:48:37 P.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
douglas-w-jones at uiowa.edu writes:


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
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