Bell Labs TOPES

Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net
Tue May 12 22:26:34 CDT 2015


On Tue, 12 May 2015, Jason T wrote:

> A new AT&T video out today showing their (at the time, the Bell
> System's) internal CAD and messaging system, TOPES:
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKbFM770dus
>
> Not a lot of info out there about it but it appears to have run on
> DEC-10 machines.  There are a none of those to be seen in the video
> but there are a few AT&T/Teletype Dataspeed and Tektronix terminals.
> Interesting early collaboration system that probably never left Bell -
> did anyone here work with it?
>
> -j
>

Looks like it MIGHT be running atop TOPS-10.  Anyone agree/disagree?

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