From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: angus@fairhaven.za.net (Angus Robinson) Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2015 09:37:56 +0200 Subject: [TUHS] State of networking in the early '90s In-Reply-To: <20150106015536.GA27434@www.oztivo.net> References: <534d2eef8d0fb84d3880c067d9e1517d@xs4all.nl> <20150106015536.GA27434@www.oztivo.net> Message-ID: Hi Warren It seems like it would be an interesting read. Would you mind sending me a copy of the epub? On Tue, Jan 6, 2015 at 3:55 AM, Warren Toomey wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 10:59:26AM +0100, Jacob Goense wrote: > > Early 80s INTELPOST ran on small 11s running RT-11/RSX-11 with Mills' > > fuzzball bolted on top. These were hooked up to DACOM or Rapicom fax > > machines. > > Reading this e-mail caused me to read up on the fuzzball, which then lead > me > to this overview of the state of networking in the early '90s: > > http://museum.media.org/eti/ > > In 1990 and 1991, I made three trips around the world to write a > technical travelogue. The result was the book "Exploring the > Internet", originally published by Prentice-Hall. Perhaps because > they felt the Internet trend had passed, or more likely because > of the less-than-mainstream appeal, they allowed the book to go > out of print. I decided to republish the book on the Internet in > the hope that perhaps it retains some minor historical interest. > > So far I've got through about 6 chapters and it's a good read. I've made it > into an epub if anybody wants a copy. > > Cheers, Warren > _______________________________________________ > TUHS mailing list > TUHS at minnie.tuhs.org > https://minnie.tuhs.org/mailman/listinfo/tuhs > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: