[ih] Historical fiction

[John Day]

For the first few years, there was a well-known socket at NMC that 
would return a logical ARPANET map indicating who was up and down at 
that moment.  It would print on a single 8.5 x 11 page of paper on a 
Model 33 Teletype.  It was discontinued when it would no longer fit.

SDC did have a node in Santa Monica and in DC.  I don't remember what 
was connected to it.  It may have been a TIP.  We were doing stuff 
with them in the late 70s.  The question is was it DARPA or DCA? or 
DISA?

John


At 18:35 -0400 2012/05/12, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>     > 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