00100	                     COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT
00200	                         STANFORD UNIVERSITY
00300	                     Stanford, California 94305
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01100	Defense Supply Service - Washington
01200	Room 1D - 245
01300	The Pentagon
01400	Washington, D.C. 20310
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01700	Attention: Mr. Eugene Stubbs, Contracting Officer
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01900	Subject: High Speed Processor Fabrication (SD-183 Capital Equipment)
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02200	References:
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02400	1.  J. McCarthy, "Proposal for Development of a High Speed Processor",
02500	submitted to ARPA by Stanford University, January 1972.
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02700	2.  Amendment P00023 of Contract SD-183, administered by DSS-W.
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03000	Gentlemen:
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03200	We request  permission  to  fabricate  a  high  speed  processor,  as
03300	described  in our recent proposal (Reference 1), which has since been
03400	funded by your office (Reference 2).  
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03600	The  University  is  financially unable to provide funds from its own
03700	resources to buy this equipment, so we request that contractual funds
03800	be authorized for this purpose.
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04000	The   justification  for  this  project  is  given  in  our  proposal
04100	(Reference 1).   It is not possible to predict completion dates  with
04200	accuracy,  since  some of the tasks involve sequential performance by
04300	up to four contractors and we are dealing with some of them  for  the
04400	first  time.   Nevertheless, if we obtain formal approval by 1 August
04500	1972, the following completion dates appear plausible.
04600		printed circuit cards designed		1972 Sept. 15
04700		backpanel and wire wrap cards layed out	     Nov.  1
04800		all cards fabricated			     Dec.  1
04900		backpanel wiring			     Dec.  15
05000		all cards tested			1973 Feb.  1
05100		processor assembled			     Feb.  15
05200		processor debugged			     June  1 ?
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05400	By a copy of this letter, I am requesting Mr. Jack Ducey  of  ONR  to
05500	check on availability, using the enclosed forms DD1419.
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05800	Very truly yours,
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06200	Lester D. Earnest
06300	Executive Officer
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06600	cc: J. Ducey, ONR (with forms DD1419)
06700	    A. Blue, S. Crocker, L. Roberts, ARPA
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