The paper overview one of the projects at the middle 80-th, supported by USSR government and oriented on breakthrough in hardware/software development. Several academic groups with industrial companies fulfilled a lot of investigations, built prototypes of perspective computers and intellectual programs. Author, as one of participants and headers of START project, analyses some principles of the project organizing structure. Although most brilliant results of START project were not used by industry because of economic and political crisis in Soviet Union, the impact of enthusiastic work and generating new ideas, was great for all major developers. Several opinions of participants are presented in conclusion.