Route 128
From Computer History Wiki
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.)
Among the oldest members of the Route 128 ecosystem are:
- Lincoln Laboratory, started in 1951 to work on SAGE;
- Digital Equipment Corporation, founded in 1957 to produce what eventually came to be called minicomputers.
Further reading
- Paul Mackun, Silicon Valley and Route 128: Two Faces of the American Technopolis - explores why Silicon Valley's evolution differed from that of Route 128
