[ih] Historical fiction

[Sytel]

I see. This is interesting, and definitely new; from the accounts I'd read 
(admittedly, mostly from Kleinrock's perspective) I was under the impression 
that the NMC was the "headquarters" for the early net; indeed, I might have 
read somewhere that it wasn't even connected to BBN's offices until some 
time after... I'm aware that most of the original team went their separate 
ways after the ECCC in 1972, but up until then I'd been sort of picturing 
Kleinrock's team as "running" the network from UCLA, with a lot of contact 
with BBN, of course.
I'm sorry if there's some false assumptions in there... as mentioned, this 
is something that's often hard to find out about in the more widely 
available histories.
What would have been the main "home bases" in the 1969-1972 period, then, 
and what would be happening at each one? Were they actually connected to the 
network, or were they more working on things that would be used at nodes 
that were connected?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bernie Cosell" <bernie at fantasyfarm.com>
To: <internet-history at postel.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2012 3:21 PM
Subject: Re: [ih] Historical fiction


> On 10 May 2012 at 11:43, Sytel wrote:
>
>> I guess what I'm interested in is "zooming in" a little more, if you
>> will. November, 1969, a typical afternoon in room 3420
>> (http://www.flickr.com/photos/3420boelterhall/5609051340/) -- what might
>> people be working on, reading, doing with the computers? What's a test
>> that might be running on the network, and how is it still not quite
>> working right? If something strange happens, who asks who about it? What
>> exciting plans are in the pipeline, what deadlines are looming?
>
> I think that given the reality of all of the folk around the country
> working on the ARPAnet, between the actual network development and the
> host system software and the application development, I don't think that
> Boelter Hall was all that central to what was going on either in the
> large or in the small, so your work will be really quite "fictional" if
> you're focusing on UCLA...
>
>  /Bernie\
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