[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.