NASA Funding
NASA provided major funding through Robert Taylor in 1964. A custom graphical workstation was built around a commercial computer, the CDC 160A, and a CDC 3100, which handled a single user at a time. In 1965 Taylor became IPTO director, which increased the funding. In 1968 an SDS 940 computer running the Berkeley Timesharing System allowed multiple users.
The project was first called ARNAS after the sponsors. For a few years it was then called the Augmented Human Intellect Research Center, which got shortened to the Augmentation Research Center around 1969.
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