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HES required an [[IBM 2250]] display console and a large memory partition on Brown's [[IBM System/360 Model 50]] campus [[mainframe computer]] which limited its use: "Although it was shared with others, it was a multi-million-dollar piece of technology housed in a large machine room that van Dam’s team was able to use as essentially a personal computer between midnight and 4 AM."<ref name="hypertext50" /> The program was used by [[NASA]]'s Houston Manned Spacecraft Center for documentation on the [[Apollo program|Apollo]] space program.<ref>van Dam, Andries. (1988, July). [http://www.cs.brown.edu/memex/HT_87_Keynote_Address.html Hypertext '87 keynote address]. ''[[Communications of the ACM]]'', 31, 887–895.</ref> The project's research was funded by [[IBM]] but the program was stopped around 1969, and replaced by the [[File Retrieval and Editing System|FRESS]] (File Retrieval and Editing System) project.

Ted Nelson claims credit for inventing the back“back” button (“undo”) with regardsregard to hypertext, as the Hypertext Editing System was the first system that contained one.<ref>{{Cite book|title=Memory machines : the evolution of hypertext|last=Barnet, Belinda|isbn=9780857280794|___location=London|pages=104|oclc=855019922|date = 2013-07-15}}</ref>

The HES editor was followed by another editing system called the [[File Retrieval and Editing System]] (FRESS).

== References ==