The entire internet."
Posted on 12/18/2016 6:21:56 PM PST by Lazamataz
"Going through old papers my dad gave me, I found his map of the internet as of May 1973.
The entire internet."
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Ah teletype. In ‘64 I keyed in orders for appliances. We received orders from salesmen/retailers on paper. The teletype spit out an 8 bit EBCDIC paper tape...Up to 8 holes side by side. Think of the old ticker tape. We would eyeball the tape for typos.
Then we would put the tape in the tape reader and send the orders to warehouses and factories all over the world ... but mostly in the Rust Belt.
I was fired for supporting Goldwater. My Dem Precinct captain called and had me fired. That gave me a lot of freedom.
Stay tuned. More betterer diagrams follow. :)
I too was in college during the transition from slide rules to calculators. I still have and use my HP-15C from 1985.
I have preferred RPN ever since I got that 15C, and I dread the day it dies. Does anyone at all make RPN calculators these days? I know there are refurbished HPs out there, but the prices I’ve seen are way high.
Multi-Trek!!!!!
Pretty cool.
Well I didn’t think you old guys got up this early.
IT is likely that HP will be selling new HP-35c calculators in the 22nd century.
I’ve found most of the acronyms but I seem to be having some trouble finding the last 2. Anyone know what these are?
RWL
SCAL
I also found that ETAC was USAF ETAC, but can’t find out what ETAC actually stood for.
Here’s what I have so far (or at least my best guess):
Aberdeen – Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD
AMES – NASA/Ames Research
BBN – Bolt Berenak & Newman
BELVOIR – U.S. Army Mobility Equipment Research & Development Center, Fort Belvoir VA
Carnegie – Carnegie Mellon University
CASE – CWRU
CCA – Computer Corporation of America
DOCB – Department of Commerce NOAA
ETAC – USAF ETAC
FNWC – Fleet Numerical Weather Center
LBL – Lawrence Berkeley Labs
Lincoln – Lincoln Laboratory, MIT
LLL – Lawrence Livermore Labs
MITRE – MIT Research Engineering
NBS – National Bureau of Standards
NORSAR – Norwegian Seismic Array
RADC – Rene Air Development Center NY
RAND – Rand Corporation
RWL -
SCAL -
SCC – Contel Spacecom
SDAC – Seismic Data Analysis Center
SRI – Stanford Research Institute
UCLA – University of California, Los Angeles
UCSB – University of California, Santa Barbara
UCSD – University of California, San Diego
USC – University of Southern California
UTAH – University of Utah
Memories and history.
APL, A Programming Language
SNOBOL, String-Oriented Symbolic Language
I’d forgotten about SNOBOL, thanks for the reminder.
APL is the preeminent write only programming language. Trying to interpret a page of APL is like trying to decipher the hieroglyphics on a temple wall in Guatemala.
Don’t you have a network map of the town message boards that we used to post FR on back in Colonial days?
Yup
Deborah Lee James
Secretary of US Air Force
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APL even has/had its own keyboard layout:
Hieroglyphics is kid's stuff compared to this:
PDP 11/73 is what we had in the '80s. Then came the mighty µVAX...good times. Though I'll take what we have today over either, thank you very much.
Stanford to Harvard with a few stops in-between....amazing. Save it Laz it’s history.
That’s sweet.
Xerox Alto (The First Computers Designed for Individual Use), 1973 In this series, we feature the Xerox Alto, - the first graphical user interface based computer developed during the A ground breaking product developed by Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center that would eventually influence all modern computers.
That’s a 10Mb hard drive on that Alto. Smokin’
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