[ih] Hello, Internet History group

[David Finnigan]

Gaige B. Paulsen was one of the authors of NCSA Telnet at the U of I. 
Are Amanda Walker or Kurt Baumann still around?

-David Finnigan

On 11 Mar 2025 8:56 am, ben at smith.net wrote:
> Yes, we InterCon folks are still loosely tied together, even thirty
> years after we were acquired by PSINet.
> 
> Gaige Paulsen was our CTO overseeing all of our products, he would be
> a fantastic resource for you (David) to contact on this question.
> 
> I've reached out to Gaige re this thread, as I'm not sure he is 
> on-list.
> 
> I was on staff at InterCon from 1993-1996, initially in product
> support and later in the technology sales group.
> 
> -- Ben (Fairfax County, Virginia)
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Internet-history <internet-history-bounces at elists.isoc.org> On
> Behalf Of Karl Auerbach via Internet-history
> Sent: Monday, March 10, 2025 4:59 PM
> To: Barbara Denny <b_a_denny at yahoo.com>; Internet-history
> <internet-history at elists.isoc.org>; df at macgui.com
> Subject: Re: [ih] Hello, Internet History group
> 
> 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
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