[43369] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: dns based loadbalancing/failover
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fletcher E Kittredge)
Sun Oct 7 12:35:16 2001
Message-Id: <200110071634.f97GYck00667@valen.gwi.net>
To: Mary Grace <nanog@diskserv.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Reply-To: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 06 Oct 2001 19:48:05 EDT."
<4.0.2.20011006190341.00a2d8d0@diskserv.com>
Date: Sun, 07 Oct 2001 12:34:37 -0400
From: Fletcher E Kittredge <fkittred@gwi.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sat, 06 Oct 2001 19:48:05 -0400 Mary Grace wrote:
> If you are saying that you would like to contribute a specimen, especially
> a particularly collectible early 1997 version with BSDlite 4.4 source prior
> to the fixes for transparency of ecommerce traffic, please write me as
> mary@ms.edu and our non-profit will be glad to respond!
>
> We even have an original mid-70s Imsai/Altair 8800, as well as a PDP8a with
> paper punch tape circa 1967, and even one of the first personal computers,
> a circa 1970 TI with 16 mini toggle switches for clocking in programs and a
> whopping 500bytes of memory. In addition to the standard pre-LED grain of
> wheat bulbs output panel, it had an option for a Hollerith card reader
> input. Not many people then who had any preference at all about getting a
> life were punching out decks of cards for personal use. Good old Dancing
> Man Jim Treybig gave us a circa 1984 Tandem NonStop, to go with our "Joe
> Boyd" Harris 1000 with VOS from the same failed Tandem satellite program
> "Infosat" that Tandem and Harris partnered on in 1985 in Santa Clara.
>
> Your cache router was one of the first in its field, too. The history of
> the internet is indeed richer fot it.
Mary;
If this is for a reputable museum with a demonstrable
commitment to preserving internet history and making it available to
scholars and the public, I might be able to get you some real Internet
historical items. We are talking some of the first routers to run
IPv4 circa 1980, 1822 Interfaces, etc.
regards,
fletcher
