In the glass-enclosed machine room of the Harvard Computing Center, a dozen men in shirtsleeves dash about--consulting a stream of paper tumbling out of one machine or filing a stack of cards into the ...

MIT’s Project MAC computer—an IBM 7094 like this one—was called on from a 1968 computer conference in West Berlin to show off the then-novel concept of time sharing. In the summer of 1968, MIT and the ...