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Greenblatt enters MIT in the fall of 1962 and enrolls in a class called Introduction to Computer Programming. He would also join the Model Railroad Club where he wrote the first FORTRAN for the PDP-1. Levy, Steven. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1984. Print.
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Levy, Steven. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1984. Print.
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The Mac Hack is a chess program meant to run on the PDP-6. It was claimed that it could "beat a 10 year old child," (Levy 89). Levy, Steven. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1984. Print.
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Levy, Steven. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution. Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday, 1984. Print.
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After Greenblatt had dropped out from MIT, he was hired by the AI lab.
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Along with the program being finished, it was also granted a chess rating and even played in human chess tournaments. Greenblatt, Richard, Donald Eastlake, and Stephen Crocker. "The Greenblatt Chess Program." Fall Join Computer Conference (1967): n. pag. Web.
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The LISP Machine and subsequently. LISP was essentially a more flexible computer that ran LISP programs. Stallman, Richard. "My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation." My Lisp Experiences and the Development of GNU Emacs - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation. GNU Operating System, 28 Oct. 2002. Web. 27 Feb. 2016.
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LISP Machine augmented with floating point an vector co-processors (Withington 4). R., Van Ness John. Spanish Land Grants in New Mexico and Colorado. Manhattan, Kan.: Journal of the West, 1980. Print.
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This was the period in which Symbolics Inc. stayed afloat.
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Under the leadership of Richard Greenblatt, Thomas Knight, and Jack Holloway, Symbolics Inc. is founded with the puropose of modifying, creating, and selling LISP machines. Most of the workers came from the MIT AI Lab (3). Graylin, Alvin, Kari Kjolaas, Jonathan Loflin, and Jimmie Walker. "Symbolic Conduct." Columbia Law Review 68.6 (1968): 1091-126. JSTOR. Web. 28 Feb. 2016.
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Symbolics sells the LM-2, which was a derivative of the MIT CADR design, except the computer ran LISP programs faster and more efficiently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolics
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Developed S-Graphics software suite.
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The 3600 family is unveiled. It had a new design along with a more powerful processor. It was the size of a household refridgerator. Hubbard, Neil. "Symbolics 3620." Computing History. N.p., 1983. Web. 28 Feb. 2016.
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Symbolic's website becomes the first registered domain name, and it is the oldest domain name in today's world. Aron. "About Symbolics." Symbolics.com. Symbolics, 2009. Web.
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The Ivory and Genera enabled Symbolic's software to be used on DEC Alpha workstation users (1). Hardware., Ce Of, and Notes Abo. Open Genera User’s Guide Introduction to Open Genera (n.d.): n. pag. Symbolics Inc. 1988. Web.
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After some declines in expensive LISP machine sales, Symbolics Inc. is forced to sell only their software and cancle their hardware lines (20). Graylin, Alvin, Kari Kjolaas, Jonathan Loflin, and Jimmie Walker. "Symbolic Conduct." Columbia Law Review 68.6 (1968): 1091-126. JSTOR. Web. 28 Feb. 2016.
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After a steady decline of finances for their machines and well as economic declines in the US market, Symbolics Inc. is forced to file for bankruptcy.
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Symbolics Inc. closes its last facility located in Chatsworth, CA.
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A domain company buys out the domain Symbolics.com.
Aron. "About Symbolics." Symbolics.com. Symbolics, 2009. Web.
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