[ih] uucp, was Question re rate of growth of the Arpanet

[Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond]

Was that mcvax, connected to seismo?

O.

On 23/04/2025 14:30, Jaap Akkerhuis via Internet-history wrote:
> [Continuing UUCP nostagia, here are some highlights from EUrope]
>
>   John Levine via Internet-history writes:
>
>   > It appears that Johan Helsingius via Internet-history<julf at Julf.com> said:
>   > >On 21/04/2025 22:15, the keyboard of geoff goodfellow via
>   > >Internet-history wrote:
>   > >
>   > >> then there was UUCP... can anyone chime in what the "minimum" acceptable
>   > >> bit rate for that was?  anything less than Bell 202 at 1.2 or Racal Vadic
>   > >> at 2.4?
>   > >
>   > >Pretty much, yes. Leaf nodes could survive on a 1200 bps connection,
>   > >but I don't think I ever saw anything slower.
>   >
>   > I think I set up a 300 bps leaf node but didn't run much traffic over it.
>   >
>
> Well, it was all we had at that time, Also, one had to toggle
> switches by hand which was a bit clumsy so we had this little box
> built to do it remotely. Later on we could get our hand on 1200 bps
> and even 2400 bps (but don't tell the regulators). The dialler boxes
> became a great succes and somehow spread over Europe.
>
> When the X.25 DN-1 came available foe international traffic, we
> startad to use that as well.  It also gave birth to the f-protocol.
> (Our uucp version was based on the olde V7 verson and some bits of
> honeydanber) But the available bandwith wasn't enough so we ended
> up havong a leased line over the ocean. Meanwhile a lot of traffice
> went via Armano's uucp hub as well.  In exchance for n course on
> Ultrix, we actually managed to get an VAX 750 from DEC.  When the
> Telebit  modems came around, it was impossible to get the g-protocol
> spoofing version. It forced us to blow our own e-proms to get it.
>
> 	jaap
>
> PS. I really have t mention some of the prople involved: Teus Hagen, Jim McKie, Piet
>      Beertema, Daniel Karrenberg, Peter Collinson, Rob Blokzijl. Note
>      this list is in random order and rather incomplete.