The Internet, 1973
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- About the oly thing you could use the "ARPAnet" for was transferring file (using FTP). Mail was a big problem because different manufactures handled mail on their machines differently, including different address format (This was before user@location.COM)
I actually used most of those computers (not the exact ones in the drawing) except for Sigma7 and IBM 360. Note the large number of PDP10 computer. Close to a "main frame", but MUCH LESS EXPENSIVE than an IBM 360.pasusan wrote:
Yep - worked on PDP-11 and VAX computers in the 80s. Those were DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) minicomputers. They were definitely not mini compared to our personal computers of today...
The first VAX was a model 11/780. It was rough the size of 3 full size residential refrigerators and that did NOT include the disk drives. - I was writing Fortran code on punched cards about 5 years earlier.
- Yep - worked on PDP-11 and VAX computers in the 80s. Those were DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation) minicomputers. They were definitely not mini compared to our personal computers of today...
Edit... Oh look - AsheGuy beat me to the DEC explanation... MrWizard wrote:
sigma-7, ibm1800, pdp10
those are computers
i think TIP is a telephone line connection node
same for IMP , some are inline nodes and some are routing nodes
i haven't looked at anything like that in many years
and my first looks were way before i got into computing
PDP - mini-computer from Digital Equipment Corp (DEC)
360-xx large mainframe computers from IBM
IMP - Interface Message Processor
TIP - Terminal Interface Processor
etc, etc- sigma-7, ibm1800, pdp10
those are computers
i think TIP is a telephone line connection node
same for IMP , some are inline nodes and some are routing nodes
i haven't looked at anything like that in many years
and my first looks were way before i got into computing - In 1976 I was drawing those 'logic ladders' for Univac ----a small computer division of Sperry-Rand Corp.
Worked as a draftsman for 1 yr when the WALLS kept creeping in on me .... had to get out of that windowless room FAST :B - Amazing. I don't know what any of those acronyms mean.
