[ih] A name from the past

[vinton cerf]

roger scantlebury is still around and could answer questions about NPLNET.
Shall I pursue?

v


On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 10:20 PM Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> On 27-Apr-22 13:26, Noel Chiappa via Internet-history wrote:
> >      > an article "Data Communications at the NPL (1965-1975)" in the
> 'Annals
> >      > of the History of Computing' (as it was then; Vol 9, No 3/4, if
> anyone
> >      > wants to look at it)
>
> ...
> > Finally, in the "Acknowledgements" section, we find listed a "B. E.
> > Carpenter", who I rather suspect is our Brian Carpenter! The paper came
> out
> > in 1988, and Brian had done his and Doran's book on "Turing's ACE
> Report" in
> > 1986, and it involved close interaction with NPL; its Acknowledgements
> > section thanks Martin Campbell-Kelly, the author of the NPL history
> paper.
>
> Yes, that would be me. I'm not sure what I contributed except reviewing
> a draft. Martin essentially commissioned the ACE book for the Charles
> Babbage Institute (and his wife retyped some of Turing's writing
> from an almost illegible carbon copy). I was blissfully ignorant of
> NPL's original network, despite having visited Donald Davies' lab
> as a grad student for other reasons.
>
>      Brian
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