Nahhh...evrybody knows that the first real network was Ma Bell... Until quite recently, the oldest parts of the Internet were some NSFnet (ANS) era links. These are now gone. The old APRAnet (where IMPs lived) links died years ago. There are some private WANs that (at least fairly recently) use very old technology. One of the sites I frequented (3 or 4 years ago) had a bunch of blinkenlight HP minis used as NICs. Another used IBM S/1s. I never found out who these machines belonged to. William Donzelli aw288(a)osfn.org

Brian, much response these VAX6000/XMI questions on this list get not :-) I was totally consumed by other things lately (and it's going to continue) but to your question: I think it is. The different voltages are on different pins of the backplane, that's how these converters from 5V to 3.3V worked that were used to upgrade older systems to 500s. Since there are hardly any XMI specifications out there, you are bound to try it out and see what happens :-) But I thought you had amassed so many KA66A CPUs that you could load your machines fully? Or do you want to run ULTRIX on them? Speaking of XMI specs, didn't you get something like that from Chuck via Ebay some year(s) ago? regards, -Gunther -- Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D. gschadow(a)regenstrief.org Medical Information Scientist Regenstrief Institute for Health Care Adjunct Assistant Professor Indiana University School of Medicine tel:1(317)630-7960 http://aurora.regenstrief.org

At 11:55 AM 10/10/2002 -0400, Bob Shannon wrote: There was actual footage of Imlacs? I would really like to see that... What did it show? Any chance someone recorded this and I can get a copy of the section on Imlacs? I checked the History Channel web page for show times and it did not list and future showings of this episode. --tom

Mazewar: is this the Olin Lathrop version? We had a Totally Excellent copy going at RPI. AFAIK it was *authored* by Mr. Lathrop. We had it served up on a Pr1me 750. At school we had maybe ~4 with; ~35 without. Congratulations Tom and Bob. Wonder how Sellam's Imlac is doing? BTW I checked the History channel's site. Nothing on this show this month after the 9th, so a tape would be useful. John A.

I couldn't find future showings either, but I did find this: http://store.aetv.com/html/catalog/vp01.jhtml?id=42747 Erik S. Klein www.vintage-computer.com -----Original Message----- From: cctalk-admin(a)classiccmp.org [mailto:cctalk-admin@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Tom Uban Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 9:15 AM To: cctalk(a)classiccmp.org Subject: Re: History Channel - The Internet: Behind the Web At 11:55 AM 10/10/2002 -0400, Bob Shannon wrote: great There was actual footage of Imlacs? I would really like to see that... What did it show? Any chance someone recorded this and I can get a copy of the section on Imlacs? I checked the History Channel web page for show times and it did not list and future showings of this episode. --tom last computers and

At 11:15 AM 10/10/02 -0500, you wrote: Did you check their website to see if it listed the show episodes? They usually sell video taped copies of the various episodes. You should be able to buy one via their website. Joe