10 Sep
2011
10 Sep
'11
6:40 p.m.
On 2011 Sep 10, at 5:50 PM, Pete Turnbull wrote:
On 10/09/2011 21:54, Jason T wrote:
That wouldn't have been an X.400 service in 1982 - too early - perhaps
they switched to X.400 or developed an X.400 gateway to an existing
system/network some years later.
I worked on what was recognised quite widely as one of the first two
X.400 systems. The other project was at KDD in Japan. Both projects
began in 1982, unknown to each other. In 1984 we both became aware of
the other and in early 1985 we interconnected the two, the first
interconnection of two independantly-developed X.400 systems. (Sheesh.
Kind of sounds like the plot to "Colossus: The Forbin Project".)
It was a good number of years later before any of the PTTs were in any
position to offer an X.400 service.
On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Jason T
<silent700 at gmail.com> wrote:
> connection that dialed up via modem every 20 minutes. My address
> there was a hybrid, something like harper!timmoja at uunet.uu.net. It
My first email address was in 1982 on Telecom Gold, which was British
Telecom's version of ITT Dialcom, an X.400 service. I can't remember
the original address, which is a pity because I remember it was a
really low number, but a few years later it got changed to MAG1001. I
didn't get an Internet address until ten years later, and until then I
used Telecom Gold and gateways, usually via Packet SwitchStream (X.25
dialup).