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I got involved in 1969 when the four node protoype for the ArpaNet was being put together. I was an undergrad student at UCSB and was involved with connecting the UCSB IBM-360 mainframe to the local Arpanet IMP. I also designed an interface for Digital Equipment Corporation's UNIBUS interface that was used in PDP-11 and VAX minicomputers. That interface was used by many universities and research facilities to get onto the ArpaNet. It was amazing to see the diagrams of the ArpaNet quickly grow in complexity until it became an unmanageable task.
