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This map of MA computer companies circa 1984 is an extremely fun visualization of what this state was like right before the Bay Area took over American tech
I wish people still named companies things like UNITRODE or TERADYNE or INTERLAN instead of epic lord of the rings or The Oatmeal references
I had no direct experience of this, and so tend to think of Tracy Kidder's "Soul of a New Machine" as a reference for the 128 tech cooridor.
another region really important in computing history that I'm more fuzzy about nucleated in MN around this and its successors:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engineering_Research_Associates
so I think that's how Cray ended up there and why IBM's HPC stuff has been there
@alex ah massachusetts, the silicon snowbank
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