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Alexander McKenzie
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Mon Apr 21 12:40:14 PDT 2025
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- Previous message (by thread): [ih] Question re rate of growth of the ArpanetYes, the ICCC demo site was connected to the ARPAnet via a 50kbps cable. Cheers, Alex On Monday, April 21, 2025 at 03:12:01 PM EDT, Jack Haverty via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote: The ICCC conference in 1972 at the Washington Hilton was the "coming out party" for ARPANET. I was one of the crew setting up in the ballroom where live demos would be used by the public. I had never seen an IMP actually hooked up, so I volunteered to help the Telco guy when he arrived to get the "wideband circuit" in place - i.e., he had orders to "provision" the circuit. My expectations were to see some kind of massive cable, with robust military grade connectors, and the very professional "cable run" appropriate for a "wideband circuit". But what I actually saw was the tech using a spool of wire, which looked like it had been used many times before, and connecting its ends to screw terminals in a box on the wall, jus...
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