[ih] Historical fiction

[dave.walden.family at gmail.com]

My guess is that the first four sites were promised participation, or were required to participate, as part of ARPA's plan to have a network, before BBN was selected as the IMP contractor.  Also the winner of the IMP contract might have been a west coast company which could have inexpensively connected to one of the first four IMPs (e.g., a company called something like Jacobi Systems might have won).

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On May 10, 2012, at 8:53 PM, Miles Fidelman <mfidelman at meetinghouse.net> wrote:

> Dave Walden wrote:
>> BBN IMP was the fifth IMP on the network, in early 1970.
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> You know, I've always wondered, how is it that one of the first four nodes wasn't at either BBN or MIT?  How were the first four sites actually selected?
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