29 Oct
2019
29 Oct
'19
7:12 a.m.
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
The first inter-computer communication happened 50
years ago today. L.
Kleinrock part of that historic moment, said, and I paraphrase here,
ARPANET was the instrument that was to enable computers to talk to each
other remotely. He sent ?LO? because the system crashed(how surprising was
that!) This was the precursor to the inter-net, moving from the intra-net.
Happy computing all!
You may want to reword that statement ("first inter-computer
communication"). The SAGE Direction Center computers were talking to each
other (cross-tell) in 1958, via Bell 101 modems.
Mike Loewen mloewen at cpumagic.scol.pa.us
Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/