IMP #1

Wed Sep 1 23:32:24 UTC 2004

> Cc: nanog at merit.edu
> From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch at muada.com>
> Subject: Re: IMP #1
> Date: Thu, 2 Sep 2004 01:19:36 +0200
> To: Peter H Salus <peter at 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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