[ih] Arpanet on Kitchen computer ? (was: Re: Speaking of Minitel: Here's an oldie NO one remembers)

[Toerless Eckert]

Even more fun ?

I had seen one of those Kitchen Computers at the CHS, but only after
reading the wikipedia article did it dawn on me, that one could have
maybe have built the ARPANET with them given how they used the IMP minicomputer
hardware:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honeywell_316#Kitchen_Computer

(maybe not enough network interfaces though ;-)

On Mon, Mar 28, 2022 at 08:25:36AM +0200, Johan Helsingius via Internet-history wrote:
> On 27/03/2022 22:02, Brian E Carpenter via Internet-history wrote:
> 
> > Computer? No. Word Processor? No. Telephone? No. In fact, after the sales
> > pitch I still didn't know what it was or why I'd ever want one (even the
> > free ones that the rep was offering to CERN as a trial). In all
> > seriousness,
> > we couldn't see the slightest use for it. In particular, it had no network
> > connection (except a phone line), so it was a hard sell to a networking
> > group.
> 
> The Bell Labs/Lucent/Philips Shannon/IS2630 web phone (running
> Inferno, the commercial version of Plan 9) at least had networking
> (but only over phone line), but no VoIP, even if it was a phone...
> 
> https://i.imgur.com/TV7x46ml.png
> 
> I still have a couple of those somewhere in a storage unit...
> 
> 	Julf
> 
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