[ih] MAP & BBN

John Levine johnl at iecc.com
Fri May 11 20:42:06 PDT 2012


>As an aside, I am surprised that no one has staked a prior claim for IBM
>360's, but perhaps either the prevalence of ad hoc virtual reader / virtual
>punch "mail" didn't immediately appear with CP68, or they weren't
>sufficiently connected early enough?

The virtual card chutes were fun, but it's been well documented that
there was email on CTSS in 1965, several years before CP-67 existed.
That's the earliest reference to it that I know.

R's,
John



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