[ih] Historical fiction

[Noel Chiappa]

    > From: Craig Milo Rogers <rogers at ISI.EDU>

    >> From: Dave Walden <dave.walden.family at gmail.com>

    >> I think SDC was on the ARPANET, host number 10??

    > SDC was on earlier than I remembered; they show up on the 1970 ARPANET
    > map. They dropped off the map, so to speak, around 1977. 

You saved me from making a big mistake! I consulted the entire series of
"Network Host Status" RFCs, and according to them it was 0/8 ("SDC
IBM-360/155") _but_ none of them ever showed it online. I tried looking in
such host tables as I have, and a host table I have from '77 shows IMP 8
being NRL. Which led me to guess they'd never been on... but that was clearly
wrong: looking at some maps, I see they did.

Speaking of maps, I've been accumulating a big collection of them, and will
put them up on a web page shortly. Of particular interest are the logical
ones (not many of which are online), which also show the hosts.

(Looking online for ones to add to the large collection I have here, I'm
amazed how much stuff has 404'd. Lots of collections pages, and most of the
links to things don't work... :-( I saw a link to MSGGROUP archives, but it
was gone - and when I Google'd for it, it wasn't anywhere else. Luckily, I
found a copy in WayBack, but that doesn't seem to be indexed.)


Oh, about host tables: I think I have asked about these before? I have one
from '77 (sort of - I think it's a list from an ARPANET Directory), one from
'79, and then a lot from '82 on, but nothing early (and I seem to recall
looking hard).

Does anyone have any early ones?



    > Ari Shoshonan or something like that is a name that comes to mind.

The contact name given in the RFCs is "Bob Long", FWTW.

	Noel