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From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole)
Subject: [TUHS] OT: Grace Hopper, Unix epoch, ARPAnet converted to TCP/IP
Date: Tue, 2 Jan 2018 11:19:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2OB_kZcG006++T-We6w6ikP6iVFgrMziQV_zQhKvYyQHQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180101125943.429CE18C0A0@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>

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On Mon, Jan 1, 2018 at 7:59 AM, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
wrote:

> it was _planned_ to happen at "00:01 (EST) 1 Jan 1983". Whether it did
> happen
> at that moment, or if in reality there was some variance, I don't know


​I don't remember it as being a huge event.   As Noel said most people had
cut over to TCP by then​.

People were much more spooked by Y2K a few years later.

Clem
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-01-02 16:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-01 12:59 Noel Chiappa
2018-01-02  0:57 ` Ron Natalie
2018-01-02 16:19 ` Clem Cole [this message]
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2017-12-31 23:10 Noel Chiappa
2017-12-31 23:22 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-12-31 23:47   ` Kurt H Maier
2018-01-01  0:15     ` Dave Horsfall
2018-01-01  0:59       ` Kurt H Maier
2017-12-31 22:51 Dave Horsfall

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