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[John Day]

Yes, that is correct.  Burros built the machine and it was to be 
connect via B6700, which was a much more interesting machine than 
either Illiac IV or Tenex.

Yes, it was wonderfully ironic that the rationale for moving the 
machine from Illinois was fear of it doing classified research. 
However the building to house was not securable and that couldn't 
have happened.  So it went to Ames where it was securable and was 
used for classified work, which is why it was never connected.



At 23:14 -0400 2012/05/10, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>     > From: "Sytel" <sytel at shaw.ca>
>
>     > the attack on the office in Illinois. Will also be looking into the
>     > Iliac IV; would this have been connected to the ARPANET in any way?
>
>Yes, via a front-end PDP-10 running Tenex, but only after it moved to Ames in
>1972. See RFC-330, April 1972, "Network Host Status", where it shows up as
>host 0/15.
>
>It was listed in several issues of "Network Host Status" prior to that, but
>always as 'not conected yet'. The original plan was to apparently to connect
>via its B6500 front-end, but they switched it to be a PDP-10.
>
>(Oddly enough, it was originally listed as being host 0/13 in RFC 288 -
>perhaps this was a typo? That RFC also shows Case as being 0/13... IMP 13 was
>later the Gunter IMP.)
>
>	Noel