Michael Kjörling wrote:
> can anyone either suggest names with a bit of background (where they
> were, what hardware, what time period, etc.),

MIT-EDDIE, early distrbution point for GNU software.  More details here:
http://www.driver-aces.com/ronnie.html


Clem Cole writes:
> BTW: Many of the systems from the Arpanet days had very unimaginative
> host names: CMUA, "MIT-AI" are examples.

Better add that those are not Unix machines.