[ih] A name from the past

[vinton cerf]

wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPL_network

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On Wed, Apr 27, 2022 at 2:31 AM vinton cerf <vgcerf at gmail.com> wrote:

> roger scantlebury is still around and could answer questions about NPLNET.
> Shall I pursue?
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> On Tue, Apr 26, 2022 at 10:20 PM Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> 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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