Though almost all of the major MA computer industry was out in the suburbs and ex-urbs anyway. Lotus is the main exception I can think of.
Biotech and pharma is obviously huge around Kendall. The big software companies in Boston and Cambridge today are mostly offices of West Coast companies.
One reason building up Biotech and Pharma wholesale in the Kendall Square area was practical was a lot of that was underutilized warehouses and the like from Cambridge's industrial era so you could (and continue to) do massive new constructions for those types of companies (and MIT of course).
Biotech and pharma is obviously huge around Kendall. The big software companies in Boston and Cambridge today are mostly offices of West Coast companies.
One reason building up Biotech and Pharma wholesale in the Kendall Square area was practical was a lot of that was underutilized warehouses and the like from Cambridge's industrial era so you could (and continue to) do massive new constructions for those types of companies (and MIT of course).