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From: schily@schily.net (Joerg Schilling)
Subject: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 14, Issue 63
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 15:21:54 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <587e2882.ucdKFsgP38LOZ3N7%schily@schily.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201701161600.v0GG00XA080461@tahoe.cs.Dartmouth.EDU>

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Doug McIlroy <doug at cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:

> The highest levels of AT&T were happy to carry digital data, but
> did not see digital as significant business. Even though digital T1
> was the backbone of long-distance transmission, it was IBM, not
> AT&T, that offered direct digital interfaces to T1 in the 60s.

Was T1 a "digital" line interface, or was this rather a 24x3.1 kHz channel?

How was the 64 ??? Kbit/s interface to the first IMPs implemented?

Wasn't it AT&T that provided the lines for the first IMPs?

I was always wondering how they could provide such a "high speed" line in the 
1960s.

I hope somebody knows this....

Jörg

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-17 14:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1.1484532001.2693.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-01-16 16:00 ` Doug McIlroy
2017-01-16 16:22   ` Marc Rochkind
2017-01-16 16:44   ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-16 16:52     ` Marc Rochkind
2017-01-16 19:17     ` Steve Johnson
2017-01-16 19:21       ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-16 19:57         ` Ken Thompson
2017-01-16 23:41     ` Tim Bradshaw
2017-01-16 23:45       ` Brantley Coile
2017-01-17  4:07       ` Jason Stevens
2017-01-17  5:22         ` William Corcoran
2017-01-17 11:43     ` Jason Stevens
2017-01-17 14:27     ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-17 14:21   ` Joerg Schilling [this message]
2017-01-16 19:46 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-17  0:30 ` Brad Spencer
2017-01-17 15:32 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-18 14:29 ` Paul Ruizendaal

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