[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.


Again, as a mere passenger on the packet-switching technical development 
train, trying to learn what I could, I don't recall ever hearing nuclear 
survival as a goal, but I do remember repeatedly hearing something like 
"survive hostile battlefield conditions".

When reciting this to others, such as doing TCP/IP presentations, I 
noted that this turned out to include average commercial operating 
environments...

Also, my understanding is that a precise example of hostile battlefield 
conditions was not tested until the first Iraq War, and then it was 
Iraq's network (using Ciscos?) that did indeed survive...

d/

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