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oh, and the somewhat obligatory posting about the internal network being larger than arpanet-internet from just about the beginning until sometime in the mid-80s
Jim Haynes Thanks for sharing the info. I know of one exception--customer owned dictation equipment connected to a...
at the time of the cut-over from homogeneous arpanet-internet host protocol to internetworking protocol, apranet-internet had around 250 nodes.
by comparison, a little later the same year, the internal network pbutted 1000 nodes.
small sample of node update announcements from '83:
* Date Sent 7-29-83 * Node Connected Machine DIV WHERE OPERATOR * To-How Type NUMBER + BPLVM * PKMFGVM-9 4341-VM DSD Brooklyn, N.Y. 8-868-2166 + FRKVMPF1 * STFFE1-9 4341-VM CSD Franklin Lakes, NJ 8-731-3500 + FUJVM1 * FDLVM1-4 3033-VM AFE Fujisawa, Japan + GBGMVSFE * GBGVMFE3-C GUEST-MVS FED Gaithersburg, Md. 8-372-5808 + LAGVM5 * LAGM3-9 168-VM CPD La Gaude, France + LAGVM7 * LAGM1-9 3032-VM CPD La Gaude, France + MVDVM1 * BUEVM1-2 4341-VM AFE Montevideo,Uruguay 98-90-17 + RALVMK * RALVMA-C 4341-VM CPD Raleigh, N.C. 8-441-7281 + RALVMM * RALVS6-C 4341-VM CPD Raleigh, N.C. 8-227-4570 + RALVMP * RALVM2-C 3081-VM CPD Raleigh, N.C. 8-442-3763 + RCHVM1PD * RCHVM1-C 4341-VM SPD Rochester, Mn. + RCHVM2 * RCHVM1-C 4341-VM SPD Rochester, Mn. + RCHVM3 * RCHVM1-C 4341-VM SPD Rochester, Mn. + SJMMVS16 * SNJMAS2-9 4341-MVS GPD San Jose, Ca. 8-294-5103 + SJMMVS17 * SNJMAS1-9 4341-MVS GPD San Jose, Ca. 8-276-6657 + TUCVMJ * TUCVMI-5 148-VM GPD Tucson, Arizona 8-562-7100 + TUCVMN1 * TUCVM2-C 4341-VM GPD Tucson, Arizona 8-562-6074 + UITECVM1 * UITHON2-9 4341-VM EMEA Uithoorn, Netherlands
Another early exception was the "recorder connector", a black box on the wall with a connector that allowed you to connect a wire or tape recorder to the telephone...
* Date Sent 12-15-83 * Node Connected Machine DIV WHERE OPERATOR * To-How Type NUMBER + ADMVM2 * ADMVM1-9 4341-VM EMEA Amsterdam, Neth. 20-5133034 + BOEVMN * BOEVM1-9 4361-VM SPD Boeblingen, Ger. 49-7031-16-3578 + BRMVM1 * MTLVM1-9 4341-VM AFE Bromont, Canada 514-874-7871 + DUBVM2 * RESPOND-4 3158-VM EMEA Dublin, Ireland 785344 x4324 + ENDVMAS3 * ENDCMPVM-C 3081-VM GTD Endicott, N.Y. 8-252-2676 + KGNVME * KGNVMN-C 3081-VM DSD Kingston, N.Y. + KISTAINS * KISTAVM-9 4341-VM EMEA Stockholm, Sweden + MDRVM2 * MDRVM1-9 3031-VM EMEA Madrid, Spain 34-1-4314000 + MSPVMIC3 * MSPVMIC1-9 4341-VM FED Minneapolis, Minn. 8-653-2247 + POKCAD1 * PKDPDVM-9 4341-VM NAD Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 8-253-6398 + POKCAD2 * POKCAD1-C 4341-VM NAD Poughkeepsie, N.Y. 8-253-6398 + SJEMAS5 * SNJMAS3-S 4341-MVS GPD San Jose, Ca. 8-276-6595 + TOKVMSI2 * FDLVM1-9 3031-VM AFE Tokyo, Japan
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I forgot to mention WU's dilema is not unusual for old companies. There was a major popular restaurant chain in NYC and Phila known as Horn & Hardarts. It...
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