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When the project was cancelled, many of the engineers were not interested in returning to the main IBM research campus in New York. and wished to remain in California. Some ended up at IBM's [[hard drive]] research facility in [[San Jose, California]], while many others left to form a new company, Multi Access System Corp, or MASCOR. This failed to raise capital and folded after only a few months.{{sfn|Smotherman|Sussenguth|Robelen|2016|p=68}} Amdahl resigned in September 1970 and formed his own company to build the system he had outlined with Earle, introducing it as the [[Amdahl 470/6]] in 1975. [[Amdahl Corporation]] would become a major vendor of IBM-compatible systems into the 1980s, when the mainframe market began to shrink.

Many of the innovations resulting from the project would eventually find direct realization in the [[IBM RS/6000]] series of machines (later known as the [[IBM System p]] line of workstations and servers), apart from influencing the design of other machines and architectures.

==Influence==