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The '''BCC 500''' was a computer made by the Berkeley Computer Corporation. When the company went bankrupt, the prototype went to Hawaii and was successfully deployed as an [[ARPANET]] host. It was also the hub of the [[ALOHA network]] which inspired [[Ethernet]]. | The '''BCC 500''' was a computer made by the Berkeley Computer Corporation. When the company went bankrupt, the prototype went to Hawaii and was successfully deployed as an [[ARPANET]] host. It was also the hub of the [[ALOHA network]] which inspired [[Ethernet]]. | ||
Revision as of 17:35, 21 April 2022
The BCC 500 was a computer made by the Berkeley Computer Corporation. When the company went bankrupt, the prototype went to Hawaii and was successfully deployed as an ARPANET host. It was also the hub of the ALOHA network which inspired Ethernet.
BCC was formed by members from Berkeley's Project Genie, where they made hardware and software for creating the BTSS timesharing system running on an SDS 930, eventually resulting in SDS offering the 940 as a product. When the BCC offices closed, the staff went on to Xerox PARC where they created first the MAXC and later the Alto.
External links
- Documentation at Bitsavers: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/bcc/
- and http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/univOfHawaii/
