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HES ran on an [[IBM System/360 Model 50]] [[mainframe computer]], which was inefficient for the processing power required by the system. 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 button with regards 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|publisher=|isbn=9780857280794|___location=London|pages=104|oclc=855019922|date = 2013-07-15}}</ref>
 
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