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I remember when that was coming out. Seems like PGP was also coming out for email around then, but it never caught on and was always made too cumbersome to use.

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There were also those "charge per email" schemes being floated by various agencies.

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I was sure your title meant Fairchild's Clipper uP (en.m.wikipedia.org). It had a short life and humiliating death too.

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I wasn't familiar with that one. Got it in my reading queue.

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Add this (en.m.wikipedia.org) to the queue too. It starts at the beginning of development Fairchild's 8 bit uP in 1975, that led to the Clipper. I started my career at Fairchild but did not work on this.