Nope. I have an excellent memory and that claim of being the world's
fastest appeared whenever I'd telnet to Rutherford's 360/195 -- it
was in their login banner.

> In 1972, the fastest computer was the Cray. Seconded by Control
> Data's Cyber line.

Nope. Cray was founded in 1972 and the Cray-1, their first system,
debuted in 1976. You can read more about the history of Cray here:

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray>

And before you mention Amdahl, I was there, too. I helped setup to
simulate their first system on an Xerox (XDS, formerly SDS (Scientific
Data Systems)) Sigma 7 which was the successor to the SDS 930 (later
940) that was modded at UCBerkeley (UCB) and became the basis for many
timesharing companies (e.g., Tymshare, Comshare, etc.). I used to
regularly make the trip to UCB in the 1960s to get the latest kernel
for the SDS-930/-940 and bring it back to Tymshare for use. That was
the *real* beginning of open source software.

I've been using computers since the early 1960s (mostly IBM and DEC),
and I've even been using Emacs since the mid-1970s. A copy of the
oldest Emacs manual I still have (handed to me by RMS himself in John
McCarthy's office at Stanford), can be seen here (thanks to a recent
scan I did answering another question in another forum):

<thadlabs.com/FILES/Emacs-150_1980.09.05.pdf> [9 MB]

Emacs' development was funded by the same folks who funded ARPANET
as you'll note on the manual's title page.