First Internet message and ...

[ben]

On 11/27/2019 11:30 AM, Richard Pope via cctalk wrote:
> Hello all,
>      Commodore had the marketing part down pact. That is one of the 
> reasons that at the time Commodore sold more C-64s than all of the other 
> computers combined.

I think it was more the case of who had the better games C/64 or COCO II.
I always liked the look of the Commodore PET, better than TV game box.
As for surplus computers from the 1970's they were more type of " 'Mom 
and Pop DATA CENTER' still uses a Brain-o-vac 36000 vacum tube computer"
or School of computing and fish farming now has second relay computer 
with a film punch/reader found say  Kilobaud Microcomputing Magazine.
Ben.
As a side note a few relay computers are still running in places other
than America like the Japanese FACOM128B, far more interesting to me 
than who sent the first internet message. I favor the Morse Code version
Indians seen SEN <lost carrier> :)