[ih] Hello, Internet History group

[Karl Auerbach]

By-the-way, the folks from Intercon, who did a commercial TCP/IP product 
for the Mac back in the 1980s, are still around even if the company is not.

I think Craig Watkins would know more - I suspect he is still at 
crw at transcend.com

     --karl--

On 3/10/25 1:09 PM, Barbara Denny via Internet-history wrote:
>   You might also want to reach out to Jim Mathis.  I think he implemented the first TCP/IP for Apple.  I don't think he is on this mailing list. I am not sure if I still have his current email address but let me know if you can't find a way to reach him.
> barbara
>      On Monday, March 10, 2025 at 09:27:26 AM PDT, David Finnigan via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
>   
>   Hello everyone,
>
> I just joined the Internet history group today. A brief introduction:
> Since April 2020 I have been working on implementing the Internet
> protocols on the earliest models of Apple Macintosh: the Mac 128K and
> Mac 512K from 1984. The goal is to implement the original triad of
> Internetworking applications: electronic mail, FTP, and Telnet on the
> first models of Macintosh. I am using PPP over the serial port as the
> link layer.
>
> I enjoy programming in 68000 assembly language, and I also know 6502 for
> the Apple II. I first started programming Apple computers around 1999,
> and vintage computing is today one of my hobbies.
>
> While implementing TCP on the early Macintosh, I have a few questions
> which are mostly on the philosophy of design, evolution, and rationale
> behind some features or design decisions in TCP/IP, and I'll dole these
> out in the coming days or weeks.
>
> -David Finnigan