Every time I read an article like this, it makes me a little depressed that I'm still writing code for traditional computer architectures instead of inventing new ones.
And then I never heard of it again until years later this (http://longnow.org/essays/richard-feynman-and-connection-mac...) article about Richard Feynman popped up on the internet.
I still don't know why the CM never went anywhere. Inertia, scaling limitations, grabbed by the spooks and now only used by NSA for reading my email?
(Accounts of this vary; as an ex-employee and friend of many who remained during this period, the technical staff certainly believed that they were winning those sales with a better product, but those at, say, Kendall Square Research almost certainly believed the opposite, in good faith.)