[ih] ruggedized Honeywell 516 ARPANET IMP cabinet top lifting hooks (Was: The IMP Lights story (Was: Nit-picking an origin story))

[Dave Crocker]

On 8/25/2025 6:00 AM, Steve Crocker via Internet-history wrote:
> There was no requirement or expectation that the IMPs would survive a
> nuclear event.  The idea that the net was designed for nuclear
> survivability is a red herring.


In later years, I either heard Larry Roberts directly, or someone tell 
me he said, when questioned about the claim of nuclear robustness that 
if that had been a goal, sites would have had at least /three/ links, 
not two...

d/

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