[ih] Fwd: Postel's work history

[Greg Skinner]

Forwarded for Barbara.  Also, I would add co-founder of the Los Nettos regional network <https://www.losnettos.net/history> to JBP’s work history.

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> A little more info.  Cameron Station (Army) was in the west end of Alexandria, Virginia.  I knew it mostly for the PX when I was growing  up (Neighbors were military).  It is now a housing development and preserved the name.
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> barbara
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> On Saturday, November 7, 2026 at 06:15:31 AM PST, Steve Crocker via Internet-history <internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:
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> Lyman,
> 
> Thanks!  I was about to send a follow up note re Keydata.
> 
> The PDP-15 was for a data management system inside DARPA.  It held copies
> of the contracts and management reports.  The system was a one-off system
> developed by Keydata under contract through our office (IPTO).  It was an
> interactive, time-shared system, and the agency director, Steve Lukasik,
> had direct access to it.
> 
> Prior to the creation of that system, all of the tracking of contract
> status, expenditures, etc were done through a DoD system at Cameron
> Station, somewhere near the Pentagon.  Paper reports arrived monthly.  In
> addition to changing the timeliness of reports, it also disrupted the flow
> of control.  One day I got a call from the director asking why contractor X
> hadn't submitted any quarterly reports in the last few years.  Prior to the
> creation of the Keydata system, if the director had been interested in past
> quarterly reports, he would have asked someone.  In the process of asking,
> we would have become aware of the situation and we would likely have
> reached out to the contractor with an urgent request/demand for updates.
> 
> We had a TIP in the agency, so connecting the PDP-15 as a host was a
> natural step.  And Jon was just the right person to help Keydata add
> support for NCP and Telnet to the Keydata operating system.
> 
> Steve
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> On Sat, Nov 7, 2026 at 8:46 AM Lyman Chapin via Internet-history <
> internet-history at elists.isoc.org <mailto:internet-history at elists.isoc.org>> wrote:
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> > A quick search shows that the CV is also online at
> > https://www.postel.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/32/2023/07/postel-cv-1997.txt
> >
> > - Lyman
> >
> > > On Nov 7, 2026, at 8:08 AM, vinton cerf via Internet-history <
> > internet-history at elists.isoc.org <mailto:internet-history at elists.isoc.org>> wrote:
> > >
> > > Can any of you help to recreate Jon Postel's work history?
> > >
> > > UCLA - 1967(?) - 1972 (?)
> > > SRI XXXX-XXXX
> > > <unknown>
> > > USC-ISI XXXX - 1998
> > >
> > > thanks
> > >
> > > vint
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