[dts32041]

Gee think of that dumba## expenditure by ARPA in 1969 about 100,000 USD, that was to allow non compatible computers to communicate over vast distances, had never been spent.

Wonder if you would still be using Free Republic?

It all has to start somewhere with a little seed money and an idea.

[archy]

Gee think of that dumba## expenditure by ARPA in 1969 about 100,000 USD, that was to allow non compatible computers to communicate over vast distances, had never been spent.

Wonder if you would still be using Free Republic?

Almost certainly. At least those of us with TTY teletype equipment and Angry-9 or AN/VRC-7 radios in the shelters set up in the *communications spaces* carried aboard 5-ton trucks.

There might even be some so communicating via postal mail. Even in the days of railroad telegraphy, there were *chat lines* and over-the-wire very personal communications between OPs. Ham radio operators have also noted similar communications.