[Air-l] ARPAnet history question

[Matthew Allen]

If you want a nice graphic peacockmaps.com probably has something - I am
looking at their lovely maps of the internet poster (on my wall) and can
see that, in December 1969, a sigma7 at UCLA, a 360 at UCSB, a PDP10 at
Utah and a 940 at SRI were the four computers. The map also describes
the state of ARPANET in September - not much of a network - just the
sigma7 at UCLA and the first IMP.

M 


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Subject: Re: [Air-l] ARPAnet history question

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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Florida State University
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