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| − | In 1971 | + | In 1971 Lee Felsenstein came into contact with a group of four computer science students who had dropped out of Berkeley and were living in a warehouse community in San Francisco. They obtained the donation of an obsolete time-sharing computer, an XDS 940, and set up the non-profit organisation Resource One to try to deliver computing power to non-profit organisations and social-action groups. |
Lee Felsenstein signed on as chief engineer. The computer was delivered in 1972 in two trucks, and it also required 23 tons of air conditioning. The hardware was old and Felsenstein had numerous problems trying to keep it running. A friend of Felsenstein’s, a systems programmer named Efrem Lipkin, directed the project of writing an information retrieval system, which took more than a year to write and debug. | Lee Felsenstein signed on as chief engineer. The computer was delivered in 1972 in two trucks, and it also required 23 tons of air conditioning. The hardware was old and Felsenstein had numerous problems trying to keep it running. A friend of Felsenstein’s, a systems programmer named Efrem Lipkin, directed the project of writing an information retrieval system, which took more than a year to write and debug. | ||
