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Yes, we RESISTORS did indeed meet in Claude's barn which was
filled with old telephone and computer equipment. Claude's
version of TRAC started on the PDP-8, migrated to the PDP-10,
and for the legal reasons mentioned ended up as SAM-76. (FYI,
SAM stands either for "Strachey and McIlroy" or "Same As
Mooers". RESISTORS always stood for "Radically Emphatic
Students Interested in Science, Technology, and Other Research
Studies" as much as it stood for anything.
Starting when we were members of the RESISTORS, Peter Eichenberger and I wrote a PDP-10 TRAC processor and later
reimplemented it for the PDP-11, eventually adding a little
multi-terminal time-sharing monitor. We kept a lower profile
than Western Electric (either that, or as 19 year olds we
had no noticable assets) so we and Mooers stayed on cordial
terms.
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TRAC and the RESISTORS 
TRAC
(Peter Zelchenko)
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