10 Jan
2001
10 Jan
'01
8:38 p.m.
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.
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Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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10 Jan
10 Jan
8:15 p.m.
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jim Strickland 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.
Yes, I hugged one last night at The Computer Museum History Center (the
point being that I had my arms around the Internet...dumb joke :)
I think there are at least a few more still in existence.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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9:07 p.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
11 Jan
11 Jan
2:54 p.m.
Grin... I was thinking how neat it would be to have one :)
clint
On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Jim Strickland 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.
--
Jim Strickland
jim(a)DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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