11 Jan
2001
11 Jan
'01
2:07 a.m.
At 12:38 AM 1/11/01 -0700, you wrote:
Okay, I'm watching the History Channel's
treatment of how the internet came
to be and I have to wonder if any of BBN's IMPs are still around. Those
have to be *bigtime* collector's items.
One of the guys who stopped by to talk to me at the VCF claimed he had both
an IMP and a TAC (Terminal Access Controller) in his garage in Southern
California.
My favorite thing about the IMP we had at USC was that the chassis was
mil-spec and came with the requisite parachute rings in case you needed to
drop an ARPAnet on somebodies head :-)
--Chuck