[dfrage]

It was used way beyond the 9th floor of 545 Tech Square. To the west, the longest cable run was to the NW16 Plasma Science and Fusion Center, I think there were only 2 taps on that cable, it was marginal. To the far south the Mathematics Department in Building 2, and it went east to Building 20 at minimum.

[gumby]

True, I'd forgotten that it went to Building 20, but Building 2? Someone wanted to use MACSYMA?

In any case by 83 or so they were building out Athena which was ethernet based.

[dfrage]

> but Building 2? Someone wanted to use MACSYMA?

As I understand it, they just wanted to be connected to the rest of the world, which their RJE connection to NCARs' supercomputers didn't accomplish.