<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484763062841_26179">Jeremy,</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484763062841_26181"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484763062841_26183">The IMP 11a is NOT an Interface Message Processor, and was not an ARPANET (or ARPANET clone) switch. It MAY have been a part of ARPA's packet radio experiments, but I am not confident that it had anything to do with packet switching.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484763062841_26274"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484763062841_26276">Cheers,</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484763062841_26319">Alex McKenzie<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484763062841_26185"><span></span></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484763062841_26186"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484763062841_26323" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484763062841_26322"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484763062841_26321"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484763062841_26320"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484763062841_26325" size="2" face="Arial"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Jeremy C. Reed <reed@reedmedia.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> internet history <internet-history@postel.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, January 18, 2017 2:48 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [ih] Arpanet line speed<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1484763062841_26327"><br>This got me thinking ... is there any list of where the original IMPs <br clear="none">(and modems, etc) are located today? What museums or other places can we <br clear="none">visit to see them and learn about them (in person)?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On that note, any good museums that have exhibits for the physical <br clear="none">history of the internet?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Hopefully this list allows my attachment. This is an Digital IMP11a. It <br clear="none">is probably around 12 years newer than the original IMPs. I took this <br clear="none">photo a few years ago in a Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) warehouse <br clear="none">in Redwood City, Calif.<br><div class="yqt4756112342" id="yqtfd70450">_______<br clear="none">internet-history mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:internet-history@postel.org" href="mailto:internet-history@postel.org">internet-history@postel.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history" target="_blank">http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history</a><br clear="none">Contact <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:list-owner@postel.org" href="mailto:list-owner@postel.org">list-owner@postel.org</a> for assistance.<br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>