[Air-l] ARPAnet history question

[Neil Randall]

Four computers formed the nodes. See
http://www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml, for instance, as well as
the Internet Growth table at http://www.sharpnet.co.uk/winter.shtml (it's at
other places as well). The computers actually connected were called
Interface Message Processors (IMPs), smaller computers that performed the
packet switching, and built by Bolt Beranek & Newman (BBN). Host computers
connected to these - but at first, only one to each. See
http://www.engineer.ucla.edu/stories/2004/Internet35.htm. See the 1969 entry
for the Hobbes Internet Timeline
(http://www.zakon.org/robert/internet/timeline/) for the actual computers
connected the IMPs.

Neil Randall





When ARPAnet connected the four universities in 1969, were there only
actually four computers connected to each other? If not, does anyone know
how many? A source (not Wikipedia or your personal memory) for this
information would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Ulla

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Ulla Bunz
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Florida State University
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Tallahassee, FL 32306
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