20 Oct
2021
20 Oct
'21
6:06 p.m.
On Oct 20, 2021, at 4:59 PM, Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> wrote:
For several years we had UCSB’s IMP control panel hanging in our office as a wall decoration (it belonged to Larry Green, one of the UCSB IMPlementors). I still have the manuals. The actual IMP with 56Kbps modem was in a huge rack with lifting eyes for a fork lift, and weighed about 500 lbs. Every IMP had a unique customized host interface, which packetized bit-serial data from the host over the host’s usually proprietary I/O bus.
I know of at least one actual hardware PDP-10 (Not PDP-11) that is still connected to the public internet. Mine will be if/when I ever get it working.