[ih] SDC IMP?

[Steve Crocker]

I’m not sure I ever laid eyes on it but I’m pretty sure it was installed and eventually connected to a host.

In the great Telnet bake-off in October 1971, each site tried to connect to each other site.  A big table was filled in at the meeting at MIT.  SDC was distinguished by being the only site whose row and column were empty, ie no one could connect them and they couldn’t connect to anyone.  I believe they came alive shortly after that.

Steve

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 12, 2019, at 2:41 PM, Karl Auerbach <karl at cavebear.com> wrote:
> 
> Some very early maps of the ARPAnet show an IMP at SDC (System 
> Development Corporation) in Santa Monica.
> 
> However, during my time there (roughly 1971 through 1980) I never saw 
> hide nor hair of one (and given that our group under Clark Weissman and 
> Gerry Cole was the group involved with these sorts of things, we would 
> have been the group that would most likely have known about it.)
> 
> Does anyone know more about the SDC IMP?  Did it actually exist? If so, 
> any details?
> 
>         --karl--
> 
> 
> _______
> internet-history mailing list
> internet-history at postel.org
> http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history
> Contact list-owner at postel.org for assistance.