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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Route 128''' is the name for the collection of [[hardware]] and [[software]] organizations (most, but not all, of them commercial companies) situated on the inner ring road around Boston, Route 128; it is in basically the East Coast equivalent to the West Coast's [[Silicon Valley]]. (As the land near Route 128 filled up, formation of new companies shifted to Interstate 495, the outer ring road around Boston.)<br />
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Among the oldest members of the Route 128 ecosystem are:<br />
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* [[Lincoln Laboratory]], started in 1951 to work on [[Semi-Automatic Ground Environment|SAGE]];<br />
* [[Digital Equipment Corporation]], founded in 1957 to produce what eventually came to be called [[minicomputer]]s.<br />
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==See also==<br />
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==Further reading==<br />
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* Paul Mackun, [https://www.netvalley.com/silicon_valley/Silicon_Valley_and_Route_128.html ''Silicon Valley and Route 128: Two Faces of the American Technopolis''] - explores why Silicon Valley's evolution differed from that of Route 128<br />
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==External links==<br />
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* [https://www.route128history.org/ Route 128: America's First High Tech Region]<br />
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