[HECnet] Hooking up TOPS-20 to HECnet?

[Dave McGuire]

On 09/23/2013 05:56 PM, Pontus wrote:
I found the passage in the book, page 107 in this edition, sadly it
doesn't say much :(

<quote>
Instead, I sat and watched the hacker deliberately connect to the MX
computer, a PDP-10 at the MIT artificial intelligence labs in Cambridge,
Massachusetts. He logged in as user Litwin and spent almost an hour
learning how to operate that computer. He seemed quite unaccustomed to
the MIT system, and he'd frequently ask for the automated help facility.
In an hour, he'd learned little more than how to list files.
Perhaps because artificial intelligence research is so arcane, he didn't
find much. Certainly the antique operating system didn't provide much
protection - any   user could read anyone else's files. But the hacker
didn't realize this. The sheer impossibility of understanding this
system protected their information.
</quote>

"Sheer impossibility" - makes me think ITS :) Further on he comes back
to the PDP-10:

  It's very likely that that very computer is here.   Two of the three
PDP-10s from the MIT AI Lab are here.

  http://www.neurotica.com/misc/DECsystem-2020s.jpg

  The (original from MIT) handwritten label on the front of the
rightmost one says "This is ML.AI, an ITS".

                          -Dave

-- 
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA