OUK Co -C

March 10, 1975

Dr. Anthony Gorry

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue

Boston, Mass. 02139

Dear Dr. Gorry,

I had the opportunity just now to talk to Saul Amarel and to
ask him what he might have learned from you about your possible
interest in relationship to the SUMEX system. He gave me to understand,
which you had indicated to me before, that you had no immediate urgent
requirement for computer access and were therefore wlikely to be
pursuing in a formal way the possibility of joining our cooperative
user group. I can well understand this and certainly there whhldbbenno
point on my attempting to press this upon you.

However, I wonder if you would be interested in accepting the
following proposti ». We will shortly be coming on to ARPA net and
already have ommunication capability. I would be very
interested to have your reaction to the general way in which SUMEX
is operating on behalf of its users and also to have you exercise some
of the programs that are now publicly available, as well as to have
some facilitated communication with the other investigators in our
group who are working in an srea related to your own interests ~ like
Harry Pople. If those objectives would be of any interest to you, I
would be happy to set up a limited pilot account for your use ~ this
would enable you to log in, to use the message facilities, and to
exercise the programs that I indicated over a period of, let us say,

4 months from the date of start. You would also have some opportunity

to exercise our own operating system and this might help you to determine
whether there were other considerations that might move you to wish

to undertake a more active role. There are no special strings attached
to this except my own desire for you to offer your own critical
judgements to me about the way in which the system 1s operating and
about the effectiveness of the cooperation among users that we are
tempting to inculcate.

If thie is of interest to you, I suggest that you just give a
telephone call back to Dr. Elliott Levinthal here at (415)497-5813 to
be briefed on some of the specific arrangements, and to see what
documentation you may require. He will already have had a copy of this
letter and will be in a position to respond without great delay or
formality.

Sincerely yours,