[ih] Some random thoughts about ICCC 72

[Dave Crocker]

On 1/25/2025 12:55 PM, Leonard Kleinrock via Internet-history wrote:
> Interestingly, not only did the public walk away, convinced that packet
> switching was a viable technology, but also the many ARPA contractors
> and PI‘s were themselves convinced of its viability and usefulness,
> which was not the case before ICCC 72.

I was one of the floor walkers, giving demos.  At one point, someone 
handed me Lipinski Sr, of the Institute of the Future.  I connected to a 
BBN Tenex machine, did some stuff, closed the connection, opened an ISI 
Tenex, and started to do some stuff. Lipinski looked entirely bored by 
all of this. I was just demoing a time-sharing system...

And then things froze.  I looked to the center of the room, saw a flurry 
of activity around the TIP, and told Lipinski it appeared the TIP had 
crashed.  He thanked me and said he'd go off to a session and come back 
after the machine had been rebooted.

I said it would only take a couple of minutes and he said, "but they 
haven't rolled out the paper tape reader yet."

I explained about reloading from a neighboring IMP at 56Kbps.

His entire demeanor changed. In that moment, he registered what was 
being demonstrated.

Now he understood networking.

d/

ps.  I also learned a bit about doing demos...

d/

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