How a Single University Project Started Everything hackaday.com

At the Vintage Computing Festival Berlin, Michael Engel traced several computing technologies to Andy Bechtolsheim’s Stanford University Network project in the late 1970s. Bechtolsheim’s 68000-based workstation CPU board was later used in early Silicon Graphics workstations, Imagen laser printers, AppleTalk-to-Ethernet bridges and a router whose software fed into Cisco’s first product.