[GreenKeys] Incredible . . .

Bob Camp ham at cq.nu
Thu Oct 14 18:21:54 EDT 2004


Hi

Most of the BBN IMP's hooked to model 33's. As far as I could tell the IMP 
was GFE and the Teletype was local. Fine piece of gear for the early 
1970's - a rack full of 56K baud modem ....

    Enjoy!

        Bob Camp
        KB8TQ


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John Lawson" <jpl15 at panix.com>
To: "Craig Sawyers" <c.sawyers at tech-enterprise.com>
Cc: <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2004 10:38 AM
Subject: RE: [GreenKeys] Incredible . . .


>
>
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2004, Craig Sawyers wrote:
>
>>> I thought Gore invented the Internet.  Didn't know he invented 
>>> Audiophools
>> as well.  :-)
>>
>> No - the Internet was invented by Tim Berners-Lee, a British guy working 
>> at
>> CERN in Geneva.  He wrote the original specification and code for http in
>
>   As others have pointed out - Lee specced the WWW initial architecture.
>
>   Bolt, Beranek and Newman, MIT, and (IIRC) UCLA were the main centers of 
> the development of what was then called ARPANET - a 'fail-safe', 
> fault-tolerant communication system designed to survive the aftermath of a 
> nuclear attack on the US.
>
>
>  I have a Model 35KSR that we *think* may have been used as a console on 
> one of the early ARPANET Message Processors.
>
>
> Cheers
>
>   John  KB6SCO
>
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