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87 Stories
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Summary of 41 Authors
Summary of 25 Years

The 6180 at CISL, skin doors open, circa 1976. We usually ran the machine with doors open so the operators could see the AQ register display, which gave you an idea of the machine load, and for convenient access to the EXECUTE button, which the operator would push to enter BOS if the machine crashed. The two control panels visible are for a SCU on the left, and a CPU in the center. An IOM control panel is visible on the far right. Note the Selectric console typewriter in the foreground with the unpainted case: this was the Field Engineering spare unit. Photo by THVV. (Click for a larger view.)

Also see Articles for 30 technical articles about Multics and Papers for 46 published conference papers about Multics.

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87 Stories by Date

15 Oct 1988 Project MAC 25th Anniversary, Tom Van Vleck. 1988 Project MAC reunion at MIT. (MIT)
01 May 1990 Timing Channels, Tom Van Vleck. Covert channels and the star property. (CISL)
01 Oct 1991 INRIA Machine Room, Gérard Dugast. The machine room at INRIA, Rocquencourt, France, in October 1991. (INRIA)
21 May 1993 TRAC and the Shell, Tom Van Vleck. Command processors. (MIT)
08 Nov 1994 The Palyn Report, Tom Van Vleck. Marketing politics. (HIS)
08 Nov 1994 Low Bottle Pressure, Tom Van Vleck. Famous drum crashes in the 1960s. (MIT)
08 Nov 1994 Telefunken TR440, Tom Van Vleck. Interesting German machine. (MIT)
08 Nov 1994 How Many Users?, Tom Van Vleck. CTSS load and Multics performance in the 1960s. (MIT)
05 Feb 1995 Unix and Multics, Tom Van Vleck. Our famous child. (BTL)
15 Feb 1995 Security, Tom Van Vleck. How the Air Force broke Multics security. (CISL)
09 Mar 1995 Hodie Natus Est Radici Frater, Tom Van Vleck. A 1976 error message in Latin. (GM)
15 Mar 1995 Origin of the Cookie Monster, Chris Tavares. A legendary Multics hack. (MIT)
15 Apr 1995 The Louisiana State Trooper Story, Tom Van Vleck. Another marketing legend. (USL)
13 Jun 1995 Operational Statistics, 1969, Jerry Grochow. Charts from the early days of Multics service at MIT. (MIT)
25 Jul 1995 Phase One, Tom Van Vleck. The first words of Multics. (MIT)
25 Oct 1995 Multo ante natus eram, Bernie Greenberg. A date-related crash in 1995. (ACTC)
26 Nov 1995 Message Coordinator, Tom Van Vleck. Lessons from early development. (MIT)
09 Jun 1996 Pictures of the MIT 6180, Tom Van Vleck. Publicity pictures from 1973 (MIT)
18 Aug 1996 THVV Multics Bio, Tom Van Vleck. What Tom worked on. (CISL)
22 Apr 1998 MacLisp at ENWGS, Robert Matern. Story by Robert Matern. (NWGS)
11 May 1998 Multics Humor at ENWGS, Robert Matern. Jokes about ENWGS (NWGS)
21 Jul 1998 The Developer's Wail, Dave Vinograd. Story by Dave Vinograd. (MIT)
21 Jul 1998 Teaching Multics in Tokyo, Dave Vinograd. Story by Dave Vinograd. (NEC)
21 Jul 1998 Installing the GE-645 in Paris, Dave Vinograd. Story by Dave Vinograd. (Paris)
17 Apr 1999 Project MAC 35th Anniversary, Tom Van Vleck. 1999 Project MAC reunion (MIT)
08 Oct 1999 Shangri-La and the Paris 645, Jean Bellec. The 1970 "merger" and an early software factory. (Paris)
01 Feb 2000 The 645 Chip, Eric Manning. 1984 plan to put a 645 on a chip. (HISCAN)
20 Jul 2000 ST. JOHN'S HOSTS MULTICS, Albert Maggio. Honeywell internal newsletter from 1981. (SJU)
16 Aug 2000 Barry Wolman Multics Collection, Paul Green. Multics PL/I demo programs by Barry Wolman. (MIT)
10 Oct 2000 The Spirit of Multics, Don Wagner. Remark by Don Wagner. (MIT)
27 Nov 2000 The Origin of the Shell, Louis Pouzin. RUNCOM and its progeny. (MIT)
09 Feb 2001 Flower, Tom Rykken. A never shipped Multics CPU. (HIS)
14 Mar 2001 The Magic Finger, Olin Sibert. Helping the University of Calgary tune its Multics. (UC)
25 Mar 2001 Cryptic Messages from Antiquity, Chris Tavares. PL/I error messages remembered. (CISL)
10 Aug 2001 Tech Square, Tom Van Vleck. Where we worked (MIT)
15 Nov 2001 Organick's Book, Peter Flass. How to order Organick's book from MIT Press (MIT)
09 Jul 2002 Using Ring 5, Randy Saunders. Protecting a source control database. (CNO)
15 Aug 2002 Summer 1977: I was a Multics Intern, Ken Horton. Dream summer vacation in .. Phoenix. (HIS)
23 Jan 2003 Marketing Item, Ron Riedesel. Teaching salesmen to consider Multics. (HIS)
04 Feb 2003 Honeywell User News, Ron Riedesel. The first Multics sale in Europe and more. (HIS)
04 Feb 2003 Publicity Photos, Ron Riedesel. More 1970s news articles. (HIS)
04 Feb 2003 Visiting CISL, Ron Riedesel. Training the flying squad. (CISL)
13 Feb 2003 Snow Joke, Ron Riedesel. A message in the snow. (CNO)
28 Feb 2003 Installing USL, Ron Riedesel. Crayfish and hurricanes. (USL)
03 Mar 2003 Honeywell Management, Dick Hill. Inside story of Honeywell politics. (HIS)
05 Mar 2003 Industrial Nucleonics and DCC, Ron Riedesel. 1970s marketing successes. (HIS)
11 Mar 2003 Marketing Successes, Ron Riedesel. 1970s newsletter articles. (HIS)
28 Jun 2003 Visiting Project MAC, Kazuhiro Oda. Photo from Oda-san's 1973 visit to Cambridge. (MIT)
02 Sep 2003 An Obfuscated PL/I Program, Paul Karagianis. Try to guess what this PL/I program does. (SJU)
05 Sep 2003 Multics REDUCE, Rainer Schöpf. Symbolic algebra and particle physics by Rainer Schöpf. (Mainz)
10 Dec 2003 It Can Be Done, Tom Van Vleck. Writing bug-free software. (CISL)
10 May 2004 Lee Scheffler's Multics Bio, Lee Scheffler. What Lee worked on at Project MAC. (MIT)
19 May 2004 "You Had To Go To Radio Shack?", Olin Sibert. Demonstrating the Cray Station to Ford. (Ford)
21 Jun 2004 Multics T-Shirt Designs, Angus Macdonald. T-shirt designs, late 70s. (MIT)
21 Jun 2004 Multics Reunion and Dinner, June 2004, Tom Van Vleck. Events honoring Corby on 19 June 2004. (MIT)
13 Oct 2004 Marketing Multics in the Midwest, Bill Schulz. Selling Multics in Iowa in a snowstorm. (HIS)
24 Dec 2004 Short Operator, Dee Kasiowniak. The true short operator story. (GM)
14 Jun 2005 Multics SNOBOL, Olin Sibert. Multics SNOBOL and the Missing END Statement. (CISL)
05 Nov 2005 Picnics, Tom Van Vleck. Good times in the summer. (CISL)
06 Nov 2005 Julie Jackson's Multics Bio, Julie Jackson Sibert. What Julie worked on. (USL)
23 Apr 2006 Alan Sawyer's Multics Bio, Alan Sawyer. Bell Canada applications conversion. (BELL)
14 Jun 2006 USGS-M Recollections, Rex Sanders. Using Multics in Menlo Park. (USGS)
03 Apr 2010 CISL Farewell, Keith Loepere. Group photo of the CISL group taken in 1985. (CISL)
06 Jun 2011 Paul Green Multics Collection, Paul Green. Multics PL/I demo programs by several authors, and writings by Paul Green. (MIT)
21 Feb 2012 645 System: Artist's Conception, Fernando Corbató. A painting of the future GE-645. (MIT)
10 Jun 2012 2012 Multics Reunion , Paul Green. Informal gathering of Multicians in June 2012 (MIT)
05 Jun 2013 Benchmarks, Tom Van Vleck. Stories of benchmark tests done to sell Multics. (SystemM)
10 Jun 2013 The FJCC Papers, Tom Van Vleck. How the FJCC papers were written. (SystemM)
22 Jun 2013 The User Ring Newsletter, Paul Benjamin. Newsletter for HLSUA Multics users, June 1986. (SystemM)
02 Aug 2013 Ring Zero and the Null Pointers, Phil Dreyer. CNO Multicians who played rock and roll. (CNO)
05 May 2014 Early days of Multics and Performance, John Gintell. Early days of Multics and rusty analysis on Performance Improvement. (CISL)
29 May 2014 Project MAC 50th Anniversary, Tom Van Vleck. 2014 Project MAC and Multics reunion (MIT)
10 Jul 2014 GE-645 Circuit Board, Bill Eaton. Actual board from the BTL GE-645. (Phx)
01 Sep 2014 Project MAC Recollections, Peter Denning. One graduate student's recollections. (MIT)
10 Dec 2014 Multics Panel at ACSAC 30, Tom Van Vleck. Multics security Panel, December 2014 (MIT)
11 Apr 2015 Honeywell Brain Damage, Jim Fenton. SIPB response to iox_ (MIT)
25 Feb 2016 Tapes for Phoenix, Doug Wells. The GIOC bug that was never fixed. (MIT)
10 Mar 2016 The foobar bug, Doug Wells. A GE-645 DoS hardware bug that was never fixed. (MIT)
22 Mar 2016 My Introduction to Multics, John Gintell. How I got started with Multics. (CISL)
26 Mar 2016 NWGS Stories, Ed Ranzenbach. Stories from the development of the NWGS code at Moorestown NJ. (NWGS)
28 Mar 2016 ASEA Stories, Ed Ranzenbach. Personal stories from working at ASEA in Sweden. (ASEA)
28 Mar 2016 The CISL Wake, Ed Ranzenbach. 28 photos from the CISL Wake held in May 1986. (CISL)
11 Jun 2019 John Potts Multics Bio, John Potts. Working at Bell Canada and DND-H. (BELL)
15 Jul 2019 Corby, Tom Van Vleck. Homage to our leader, Fernando J. Corbató (MIT)
29 Oct 2019 Multics in Phoenix, Tom Van Vleck. Development and support in Phoenix. (SystemM)
04 Nov 2019 Memorial Gathering for Corby, Tom Van Vleck. MIT, November 4, 2019 (MIT)
29 Nov 2021 The Help Command, Tom Van Vleck. History of the help command. (MIT)

87 Stories by Author

Jean Bellec, Shangri-La and the Paris 645 The 1970 "merger" and an early software factory. (Paris) 08 Oct 1999
Paul Benjamin, The User Ring Newsletter Newsletter for HLSUA Multics users, June 1986. (SystemM) 22 Jun 2013
Fernando Corbató, 645 System: Artist's Conception A painting of the future GE-645. (MIT) 21 Feb 2012
Peter Denning, Project MAC Recollections One graduate student's recollections. (MIT) 01 Sep 2014
Phil Dreyer, Ring Zero and the Null Pointers CNO Multicians who played rock and roll. (CNO) 02 Aug 2013
Gérard Dugast, INRIA Machine Room The machine room at INRIA, Rocquencourt, France, in October 1991. (INRIA) 01 Oct 1991
Bill Eaton, GE-645 Circuit Board Actual board from the BTL GE-645. (Phx) 10 Jul 2014
Jim Fenton, Honeywell Brain Damage SIPB response to iox_ (MIT) 11 Apr 2015
Peter Flass, Organick's Book How to order Organick's book from MIT Press (MIT) 15 Nov 2001
John Gintell, My Introduction to Multics How I got started with Multics. (CISL) 22 Mar 2016
John Gintell, Early days of Multics and Performance Early days of Multics and rusty analysis on Performance Improvement. (CISL) 05 May 2014
Paul Green, Barry Wolman Multics Collection Multics PL/I demo programs by Barry Wolman. (MIT) 16 Aug 2000
Paul Green, Paul Green Multics Collection Multics PL/I demo programs by several authors, and writings by Paul Green. (MIT) 06 Jun 2011
Paul Green, 2012 Multics Reunion Informal gathering of Multicians in June 2012 (MIT) 10 Jun 2012
Bernie Greenberg, Multo ante natus eram A date-related crash in 1995. (ACTC) 25 Oct 1995
Jerry Grochow, Operational Statistics, 1969 Charts from the early days of Multics service at MIT. (MIT) 13 Jun 1995
Dick Hill, Honeywell Management Inside story of Honeywell politics. (HIS) 03 Mar 2003
Ken Horton, Summer 1977: I was a Multics Intern Dream summer vacation in .. Phoenix. (HIS) 15 Aug 2002
Julie Jackson Sibert, Julie Jackson's Multics Bio What Julie worked on. (USL) 06 Nov 2005
Paul Karagianis, An Obfuscated PL/I Program Try to guess what this PL/I program does. (SJU) 02 Sep 2003
Dee Kasiowniak, Short Operator The true short operator story. (GM) 24 Dec 2004
Keith Loepere, CISL Farewell Group photo of the CISL group taken in 1985. (CISL) 03 Apr 2010
Angus Macdonald, Multics T-Shirt Designs T-shirt designs, late 70s. (MIT) 21 Jun 2004
Albert Maggio, ST. JOHN'S HOSTS MULTICS Honeywell internal newsletter from 1981. (SJU) 20 Jul 2000
Eric Manning, The 645 Chip 1984 plan to put a 645 on a chip. (HISCAN) 01 Feb 2000
Robert Matern, MacLisp at ENWGS Story by Robert Matern. (NWGS) 22 Apr 1998
Robert Matern, Multics Humor at ENWGS Jokes about ENWGS (NWGS) 11 May 1998
Kazuhiro Oda, Visiting Project MAC Photo from Oda-san's 1973 visit to Cambridge. (MIT) 28 Jun 2003
John Potts, John Potts Multics Bio Working at Bell Canada and DND-H. (BELL) 11 Jun 2019
Louis Pouzin, The Origin of the Shell RUNCOM and its progeny. (MIT) 27 Nov 2000
Ed Ranzenbach, The CISL Wake 28 photos from the CISL Wake held in May 1986. (CISL) 28 Mar 2016
Ed Ranzenbach, ASEA Stories Personal stories from working at ASEA in Sweden. (ASEA) 28 Mar 2016
Ed Ranzenbach, NWGS Stories Stories from the development of the NWGS code at Moorestown NJ. (NWGS) 26 Mar 2016
Ron Riedesel, Installing USL Crayfish and hurricanes. (USL) 28 Feb 2003
Ron Riedesel, Honeywell User News The first Multics sale in Europe and more. (HIS) 04 Feb 2003
Ron Riedesel, Visiting CISL Training the flying squad. (CISL) 04 Feb 2003
Ron Riedesel, Snow Joke A message in the snow. (CNO) 13 Feb 2003
Ron Riedesel, Marketing Item Teaching salesmen to consider Multics. (HIS) 23 Jan 2003
Ron Riedesel, Industrial Nucleonics and DCC 1970s marketing successes. (HIS) 05 Mar 2003
Ron Riedesel, Marketing Successes 1970s newsletter articles. (HIS) 11 Mar 2003
Ron Riedesel, Publicity Photos More 1970s news articles. (HIS) 04 Feb 2003
Tom Rykken, Flower A never shipped Multics CPU. (HIS) 09 Feb 2001
Rex Sanders, USGS-M Recollections Using Multics in Menlo Park. (USGS) 14 Jun 2006
Randy Saunders, Using Ring 5 Protecting a source control database. (CNO) 09 Jul 2002
Alan Sawyer, Alan Sawyer's Multics Bio Bell Canada applications conversion. (BELL) 23 Apr 2006
Rainer Schöpf, Multics REDUCE Symbolic algebra and particle physics by Rainer Schöpf. (Mainz) 05 Sep 2003
Lee Scheffler, Lee Scheffler's Multics Bio What Lee worked on at Project MAC. (MIT) 10 May 2004
Bill Schulz, Marketing Multics in the Midwest Selling Multics in Iowa in a snowstorm. (HIS) 13 Oct 2004
Olin Sibert, "You Had To Go To Radio Shack?" Demonstrating the Cray Station to Ford. (Ford) 19 May 2004
Olin Sibert, The Magic Finger Helping the University of Calgary tune its Multics. (UC) 14 Mar 2001
Olin Sibert, Multics SNOBOL Multics SNOBOL and the Missing END Statement. (CISL) 14 Jun 2005
Chris Tavares, Origin of the Cookie Monster A legendary Multics hack. (MIT) 15 Mar 1995
Chris Tavares, Cryptic Messages from Antiquity PL/I error messages remembered. (CISL) 25 Mar 2001
Tom Van Vleck, Hodie Natus Est Radici Frater A 1976 error message in Latin. (GM) 09 Mar 1995
Tom Van Vleck, How Many Users? CTSS load and Multics performance in the 1960s. (MIT) 08 Nov 1994
Tom Van Vleck, Project MAC 25th Anniversary 1988 Project MAC reunion at MIT. (MIT) 15 Oct 1988
Tom Van Vleck, Multics Reunion and Dinner, June 2004 Events honoring Corby on 19 June 2004. (MIT) 21 Jun 2004
Tom Van Vleck, Security How the Air Force broke Multics security. (CISL) 15 Feb 1995
Tom Van Vleck, Picnics Good times in the summer. (CISL) 05 Nov 2005
Tom Van Vleck, Tech Square Where we worked (MIT) 10 Aug 2001
Tom Van Vleck, Telefunken TR440 Interesting German machine. (MIT) 08 Nov 1994
Tom Van Vleck, Timing Channels Covert channels and the star property. (CISL) 01 May 1990
Tom Van Vleck, The Louisiana State Trooper Story Another marketing legend. (USL) 15 Apr 1995
Tom Van Vleck, THVV Multics Bio What Tom worked on. (CISL) 18 Aug 1996
Tom Van Vleck, Unix and Multics Our famous child. (BTL) 05 Feb 1995
Tom Van Vleck, TRAC and the Shell Command processors. (MIT) 21 May 1993
Tom Van Vleck, Benchmarks Stories of benchmark tests done to sell Multics. (SystemM) 05 Jun 2013
Tom Van Vleck, The FJCC Papers How the FJCC papers were written. (SystemM) 10 Jun 2013
Tom Van Vleck, The Help Command History of the help command. (MIT) 29 Nov 2021
Tom Van Vleck, Multics in Phoenix Development and support in Phoenix. (SystemM) 29 Oct 2019
Tom Van Vleck, Pictures of the MIT 6180 Publicity pictures from 1973 (MIT) 09 Jun 1996
Tom Van Vleck, Project MAC 50th Anniversary 2014 Project MAC and Multics reunion (MIT) 29 May 2014
Tom Van Vleck, Low Bottle Pressure Famous drum crashes in the 1960s. (MIT) 08 Nov 1994
Tom Van Vleck, Multics Panel at ACSAC 30 Multics security Panel, December 2014 (MIT) 10 Dec 2014
Tom Van Vleck, Memorial Gathering for Corby MIT, November 4, 2019 (MIT) 04 Nov 2019
Tom Van Vleck, It Can Be Done Writing bug-free software. (CISL) 10 Dec 2003
Tom Van Vleck, Message Coordinator Lessons from early development. (MIT) 26 Nov 1995
Tom Van Vleck, Corby Homage to our leader, Fernando J. Corbató (MIT) 15 Jul 2019
Tom Van Vleck, Phase One The first words of Multics. (MIT) 25 Jul 1995
Tom Van Vleck, The Palyn Report Marketing politics. (HIS) 08 Nov 1994
Tom Van Vleck, Project MAC 35th Anniversary 1999 Project MAC reunion (MIT) 17 Apr 1999
Dave Vinograd, Teaching Multics in Tokyo Story by Dave Vinograd. (NEC) 21 Jul 1998
Dave Vinograd, The Developer's Wail Story by Dave Vinograd. (MIT) 21 Jul 1998
Dave Vinograd, Installing the GE-645 in Paris Story by Dave Vinograd. (Paris) 21 Jul 1998
Don Wagner, The Spirit of Multics Remark by Don Wagner. (MIT) 10 Oct 2000
Doug Wells, Tapes for Phoenix The GIOC bug that was never fixed. (MIT) 25 Feb 2016
Doug Wells, The foobar bug A GE-645 DoS hardware bug that was never fixed. (MIT) 10 Mar 2016

87 Stories by Site

ACTC Multo ante natus eram, Bernie Greenberg. A date-related crash in 1995. 25 Oct 1995
ASEA ASEA Stories, Ed Ranzenbach. Personal stories from working at ASEA in Sweden. 28 Mar 2016
BELL John Potts Multics Bio, John Potts. Working at Bell Canada and DND-H. 11 Jun 2019
BELL Alan Sawyer's Multics Bio, Alan Sawyer. Bell Canada applications conversion. 23 Apr 2006
BTL Unix and Multics, Tom Van Vleck. Our famous child. 05 Feb 1995
CISL Early days of Multics and Performance, John Gintell. Early days of Multics and rusty analysis on Performance Improvement. 05 May 2014
CISL My Introduction to Multics, John Gintell. How I got started with Multics. 22 Mar 2016
CISL THVV Multics Bio, Tom Van Vleck. What Tom worked on. 18 Aug 1996
CISL Timing Channels, Tom Van Vleck. Covert channels and the star property. 01 May 1990
CISL Security, Tom Van Vleck. How the Air Force broke Multics security. 15 Feb 1995
CISL Multics SNOBOL, Olin Sibert. Multics SNOBOL and the Missing END Statement. 14 Jun 2005
CISL CISL Farewell, Keith Loepere. Group photo of the CISL group taken in 1985. 03 Apr 2010
CISL Visiting CISL, Ron Riedesel. Training the flying squad. 04 Feb 2003
CISL It Can Be Done, Tom Van Vleck. Writing bug-free software. 10 Dec 2003
CISL Picnics, Tom Van Vleck. Good times in the summer. 05 Nov 2005
CISL The CISL Wake, Ed Ranzenbach. 28 photos from the CISL Wake held in May 1986. 28 Mar 2016
CISL Cryptic Messages from Antiquity, Chris Tavares. PL/I error messages remembered. 25 Mar 2001
CNO Ring Zero and the Null Pointers, Phil Dreyer. CNO Multicians who played rock and roll. 02 Aug 2013
CNO Using Ring 5, Randy Saunders. Protecting a source control database. 09 Jul 2002
CNO Snow Joke, Ron Riedesel. A message in the snow. 13 Feb 2003
Ford "You Had To Go To Radio Shack?", Olin Sibert. Demonstrating the Cray Station to Ford. 19 May 2004
GM Hodie Natus Est Radici Frater, Tom Van Vleck. A 1976 error message in Latin. 09 Mar 1995
GM Short Operator, Dee Kasiowniak. The true short operator story. 24 Dec 2004
HIS Flower, Tom Rykken. A never shipped Multics CPU. 09 Feb 2001
HIS Honeywell User News, Ron Riedesel. The first Multics sale in Europe and more. 04 Feb 2003
HIS Publicity Photos, Ron Riedesel. More 1970s news articles. 04 Feb 2003
HIS Marketing Successes, Ron Riedesel. 1970s newsletter articles. 11 Mar 2003
HIS Honeywell Management, Dick Hill. Inside story of Honeywell politics. 03 Mar 2003
HIS Summer 1977: I was a Multics Intern, Ken Horton. Dream summer vacation in .. Phoenix. 15 Aug 2002
HIS Marketing Item, Ron Riedesel. Teaching salesmen to consider Multics. 23 Jan 2003
HIS Marketing Multics in the Midwest, Bill Schulz. Selling Multics in Iowa in a snowstorm. 13 Oct 2004
HIS The Palyn Report, Tom Van Vleck. Marketing politics. 08 Nov 1994
HIS Industrial Nucleonics and DCC, Ron Riedesel. 1970s marketing successes. 05 Mar 2003
HISCAN The 645 Chip, Eric Manning. 1984 plan to put a 645 on a chip. 01 Feb 2000
INRIA INRIA Machine Room, Gérard Dugast. The machine room at INRIA, Rocquencourt, France, in October 1991. 01 Oct 1991
Mainz Multics REDUCE, Rainer Schöpf. Symbolic algebra and particle physics by Rainer Schöpf. 05 Sep 2003
MIT Message Coordinator, Tom Van Vleck. Lessons from early development. 26 Nov 1995
MIT Low Bottle Pressure, Tom Van Vleck. Famous drum crashes in the 1960s. 08 Nov 1994
MIT The Help Command, Tom Van Vleck. History of the help command. 29 Nov 2021
MIT Phase One, Tom Van Vleck. The first words of Multics. 25 Jul 1995
MIT Lee Scheffler's Multics Bio, Lee Scheffler. What Lee worked on at Project MAC. 10 May 2004
MIT Multics Reunion and Dinner, June 2004, Tom Van Vleck. Events honoring Corby on 19 June 2004. 21 Jun 2004
MIT 2012 Multics Reunion , Paul Green. Informal gathering of Multicians in June 2012 10 Jun 2012
MIT Visiting Project MAC, Kazuhiro Oda. Photo from Oda-san's 1973 visit to Cambridge. 28 Jun 2003
MIT Pictures of the MIT 6180, Tom Van Vleck. Publicity pictures from 1973 09 Jun 1996
MIT Barry Wolman Multics Collection, Paul Green. Multics PL/I demo programs by Barry Wolman. 16 Aug 2000
MIT 645 System: Artist's Conception, Fernando Corbató. A painting of the future GE-645. 21 Feb 2012
MIT Paul Green Multics Collection, Paul Green. Multics PL/I demo programs by several authors, and writings by Paul Green. 06 Jun 2011
MIT Project MAC 35th Anniversary, Tom Van Vleck. 1999 Project MAC reunion 17 Apr 1999
MIT Project MAC 25th Anniversary, Tom Van Vleck. 1988 Project MAC reunion at MIT. 15 Oct 1988
MIT How Many Users?, Tom Van Vleck. CTSS load and Multics performance in the 1960s. 08 Nov 1994
MIT Operational Statistics, 1969, Jerry Grochow. Charts from the early days of Multics service at MIT. 13 Jun 1995
MIT Organick's Book, Peter Flass. How to order Organick's book from MIT Press 15 Nov 2001
MIT Tapes for Phoenix, Doug Wells. The GIOC bug that was never fixed. 25 Feb 2016
MIT The foobar bug, Doug Wells. A GE-645 DoS hardware bug that was never fixed. 10 Mar 2016
MIT Honeywell Brain Damage, Jim Fenton. SIPB response to iox_ 11 Apr 2015
MIT The Developer's Wail, Dave Vinograd. Story by Dave Vinograd. 21 Jul 1998
MIT Multics Panel at ACSAC 30, Tom Van Vleck. Multics security Panel, December 2014 10 Dec 2014
MIT The Origin of the Shell, Louis Pouzin. RUNCOM and its progeny. 27 Nov 2000
MIT Tech Square, Tom Van Vleck. Where we worked 10 Aug 2001
MIT Telefunken TR440, Tom Van Vleck. Interesting German machine. 08 Nov 1994
MIT Project MAC Recollections, Peter Denning. One graduate student's recollections. 01 Sep 2014
MIT Multics T-Shirt Designs, Angus Macdonald. T-shirt designs, late 70s. 21 Jun 2004
MIT The Spirit of Multics, Don Wagner. Remark by Don Wagner. 10 Oct 2000
MIT Memorial Gathering for Corby, Tom Van Vleck. MIT, November 4, 2019 04 Nov 2019
MIT TRAC and the Shell, Tom Van Vleck. Command processors. 21 May 1993
MIT Project MAC 50th Anniversary, Tom Van Vleck. 2014 Project MAC and Multics reunion 29 May 2014
MIT Origin of the Cookie Monster, Chris Tavares. A legendary Multics hack. 15 Mar 1995
MIT Corby, Tom Van Vleck. Homage to our leader, Fernando J. Corbató 15 Jul 2019
NEC Teaching Multics in Tokyo, Dave Vinograd. Story by Dave Vinograd. 21 Jul 1998
NWGS MacLisp at ENWGS, Robert Matern. Story by Robert Matern. 22 Apr 1998
NWGS Multics Humor at ENWGS, Robert Matern. Jokes about ENWGS 11 May 1998
NWGS NWGS Stories, Ed Ranzenbach. Stories from the development of the NWGS code at Moorestown NJ. 26 Mar 2016
Paris Installing the GE-645 in Paris, Dave Vinograd. Story by Dave Vinograd. 21 Jul 1998
Paris Shangri-La and the Paris 645, Jean Bellec. The 1970 "merger" and an early software factory. 08 Oct 1999
Phx GE-645 Circuit Board, Bill Eaton. Actual board from the BTL GE-645. 10 Jul 2014
SJU ST. JOHN'S HOSTS MULTICS, Albert Maggio. Honeywell internal newsletter from 1981. 20 Jul 2000
SJU An Obfuscated PL/I Program, Paul Karagianis. Try to guess what this PL/I program does. 02 Sep 2003
SystemM The User Ring Newsletter, Paul Benjamin. Newsletter for HLSUA Multics users, June 1986. 22 Jun 2013
SystemM The FJCC Papers, Tom Van Vleck. How the FJCC papers were written. 10 Jun 2013
SystemM Benchmarks, Tom Van Vleck. Stories of benchmark tests done to sell Multics. 05 Jun 2013
SystemM Multics in Phoenix, Tom Van Vleck. Development and support in Phoenix. 29 Oct 2019
UC The Magic Finger, Olin Sibert. Helping the University of Calgary tune its Multics. 14 Mar 2001
USGS USGS-M Recollections, Rex Sanders. Using Multics in Menlo Park. 14 Jun 2006
USL Installing USL, Ron Riedesel. Crayfish and hurricanes. 28 Feb 2003
USL Julie Jackson's Multics Bio, Julie Jackson Sibert. What Julie worked on. 06 Nov 2005
USL The Louisiana State Trooper Story, Tom Van Vleck. Another marketing legend. 15 Apr 1995

Summary by Site

22 Sites	N	Latest
ACTC	1	25 Oct 1995
ASEA	1	28 Mar 2016
BELL	2	11 Jun 2019
BTL	1	05 Feb 1995
CISL	12	28 Mar 2016
CNO	3	02 Aug 2013
Ford	1	19 May 2004
GM	2	24 Dec 2004
HIS	10	13 Oct 2004
HISCAN	1	01 Feb 2000
INRIA	1	01 Oct 1991
Mainz	1	05 Sep 2003
MIT	33	29 Nov 2021
NEC	1	21 Jul 1998
NWGS	3	26 Mar 2016
Paris	2	08 Oct 1999
Phx	1	10 Jul 2014
SJU	2	02 Sep 2003
SystemM	4	29 Oct 2019
UC	1	14 Mar 2001
USGS	1	14 Jun 2006
USL	3	06 Nov 2005

Summary by Author

41 Authors	N	Latest
Jean Bellec	1	08 Oct 1999
Paul Benjamin	1	22 Jun 2013
Fernando Corbató	1	21 Feb 2012
Peter Denning	1	01 Sep 2014
Phil Dreyer	1	02 Aug 2013
Gérard Dugast	1	01 Oct 1991
Bill Eaton	1	10 Jul 2014
Jim Fenton	1	11 Apr 2015
Peter Flass	1	15 Nov 2001
John Gintell	2	22 Mar 2016
Paul Green	3	10 Jun 2012
Bernie Greenberg	1	25 Oct 1995
Jerry Grochow	1	13 Jun 1995
Dick Hill	1	03 Mar 2003
Ken Horton	1	15 Aug 2002
Julie Jackson Sibert	1	06 Nov 2005
Paul Karagianis	1	02 Sep 2003
Dee Kasiowniak	1	24 Dec 2004
Keith Loepere	1	03 Apr 2010
Angus Macdonald	1	21 Jun 2004
Albert Maggio	1	20 Jul 2000
Eric Manning	1	01 Feb 2000
Robert Matern	2	11 May 1998
Kazuhiro Oda	1	28 Jun 2003
John Potts	1	11 Jun 2019
Louis Pouzin	1	27 Nov 2000
Ed Ranzenbach	3	28 Mar 2016
Ron Riedesel	8	11 Mar 2003
Tom Rykken	1	09 Feb 2001
Rex Sanders	1	14 Jun 2006
Randy Saunders	1	09 Jul 2002
Alan Sawyer	1	23 Apr 2006
Rainer Schöpf	1	05 Sep 2003
Lee Scheffler	1	10 May 2004
Bill Schulz	1	13 Oct 2004
Olin Sibert	3	14 Jun 2005
Chris Tavares	2	25 Mar 2001
Tom Van Vleck	28	29 Nov 2021
Dave Vinograd	3	21 Jul 1998
Don Wagner	1	10 Oct 2000
Doug Wells	2	10 Mar 2016

Summary by Year

25 Years	N
2021	1
2019	4
2016	6
2015	1
2014	5
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