14 Sep
2016
14 Sep
'16
10:38 a.m.
Earliest networking? Not telco lines, but hardwired stuff.
I recall that in 1974/75 I was making one of my trips to Control Data
Arden Hills and noticed a backhoe at work digging a trench around the
employee's parking lot in back of the main building.
I asked what was going on and was told that Jim Thornton was
experimenting with high-speed distance networking by laying a couple of
loops of coax around the parking lot. Rumor was that he was aiming for
the then-unthinkable speed of 50 Mbit/second.
I don't recall the outcome.
--Chuck