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From: lars at nocrew.org (Lars Brinkhoff)
Subject: [COFF] ARPAnet now 4 nodes
Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 18:33:11 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7wtv6epqqg.fsf@junk.nocrew.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <29ffe051-066c-7675-f7cc-5356b17c34de@computer.org> (Rob Gingell's message of "Thu, 5 Dec 2019 10:20:06 -0800")

Rob Gingell wrote:
> 1: UCLA: Sigma-7
> 2: SRI: SDS-940
> 3: UCSB: IBM 360/75
> 4: Utah: PDP-10
[...]
> If you peruse the maps at the Computer History museum site you can see
> some real diversity in the systems. For instance in April 1971
> Burroughs had an IMP and a B6500 front-ending the under-construction
> ILLIAC-IV (later moved to Ames and front-ended by a couple of
> PDP-10s). PARC's MAXC appears in the mid-1970s.

Maybe this is a good time to ask if anyone knows whether any of those
diverse systems has software preserved?  Specifically, the
implementation of the NCP and 1822 Host-to-IMP protocols?


  reply	other threads:[~2019-12-05 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-12-05  0:08 dave
2019-12-05  4:19 ` lm
2019-12-05  8:01   ` lars
2019-12-05 12:37     ` clemc
2019-12-05 18:20   ` gingell
2019-12-05 18:33     ` lars [this message]
2019-12-05 19:05     ` lm
2019-12-05 20:41       ` gingell
2019-12-06  1:19         ` amp1ron
2019-12-06  3:25           ` gingell
2019-12-06  4:19             ` amp1ron
2019-12-06  4:43               ` amp1ron
2019-12-06 17:33 jnc
2019-12-06 18:02 ` lm
2019-12-06 19:38 ` lars
2019-12-09  1:09 ` stewart
2020-12-04 21:05 dave
2020-12-05 23:14 jnc
2020-12-09  2:41 ` dave
2020-12-10  8:12 rudi.j.blom
2021-12-04 20:29 Dave Horsfall

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