[73734] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IMP #1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory Hicks)
Wed Sep 1 19:34:22 2004
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 2004 16:32:24 -0700 (PDT)
From: Gregory Hicks <ghicks@cadence.com>
Reply-To: Gregory Hicks <ghicks@cadence.com>
To: peter@netpedant.com, iljitsch@muada.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
> Subject: Re: IMP #1
> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 01:19:36 +0200
> To: Peter H Salus <peter@netpedant.com>
>
>
> On 1-sep-04, at 22:40, Peter H Salus wrote:
>
> > Tomorrow (Sept. 2) it will be 35 years since IMP #1
> > was plugged in at Len Kleinrock's lab at UCLA.
>
> > Happy Birthday!
>
> Well, one IMP does not a network make... When did they connect the
> second one?
Dunno when they connected the second one, but #10 (Univ of Utah) was
connected sometime during the academic year in 1970-71... That's when
I was hired as a "research assistant" to implement some initial RFCs
(like FTP...)
Regards,
Gregory Hicks
>
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