ISTR him from some other context at BBN; don't recall off the top of my head, though. They _did_ replace the Honeywell's. At MIT, they eventually came and took away the 516 (I offered it to the MIT Museum, but they didn't want it, as the work on it hadn't been done by MIT - idiots!), and replaced it with a C/30. (Actually, we had a couple of C/30 IMPs - the start was adding a C/30, to which the MIT Internet IP gateway was connected - the other two IMPs were full, and the only way to get another port for the gateway was to get another IMP - something which caused a very long delay in getting MIT connected to the Internet, to my intense frustration. I seem to recall DARPA/DCVA had stopped buying Honeywell machines, and the C/30 was late, or something like that.) Yes and no. It was a general microprogrammed machine, but supported a daughter-board on the CPU to help with instruction decoding, etc; so the C/30 and C/70 had different daughter-boards, specific to their function. There's a paper on the C/70, I don't recall if I have a copy - let me look. I think the C/70 was intended to run Unix, as a general-purpose timesharing resource at BBN (and did). He was, as a grad student, a member of Steve Ward's group at MIT, the ones who did the Nu machine Unix 68K port. (He wrote the Unix V6/PWB1 driver for the Diva controller for the CalChomps they had on their -11/70, the former of which I eventually inherited.) After he got his PhD (I forget the topic; I know he did a language called 'D', the origin of the name should be obvious), he became a faculty member at MIT. He was actually their facilities manager (or some title to that effect; he was in charge of all their TENEX/TWENEX machines, too). He was part of the early Internet crowd - I vividly remember him at a bar with Phill Gross and I in the DC suburbs, at a _very_ early IETF meeting, discussing how this Internet thing was going to reallly take off, and the IETF had got to get itself organized to be ready for that. That wasn't really the tie - the tie was they were all part of the DARPA-funded circle. Now, as to why whomever at DARPA picked them - I think they probably looked for people with recognized competence, who had a need for a good VAX Unix for their research/organization. Noel