[ih] First file transfer on ARPANET

[Alex McKenzie]

I think possibly the first ARPANET file transfer was carried on by Ben Barker and Danny Cohen, implementing some sort of flight simulation at Harvard.  If I'm correct that would have been not long after the IMP was installed at Harvard sometime in 1970.  Of course this transfer did not use FTP.

Regards,
Alex McKenzie



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 From: Richard Bennett <richard at bennett.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2012 9:47 PM
Subject: [ih] First file transfer on ARPANET
 
Dear Historians,

I'm curious about when the first file transfer was done successfully on ARPANET. Given that the initial focus was remote login, I'm guessing that rudimentary file transfers wouldn't have been done until sometime in 1970. Does anyone remember?

Thanks,

RB

-- Richard Bennett
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