On Tue, 29 Oct 2019, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
The first inter-computer communication happened 50 years ago today. L. Kleinrock part of that historic moment, said, and I paraphrase here, ARPANET was the instrument that was to enable computers to talk to each other remotely. He sent ?LO? because the system crashed(how surprising was that!) This was the precursor to the inter-net, moving from the intra-net. Happy computing all!
You may want to reword that statement ("first inter-computer communication"). The SAGE Direction Center computers were talking to each other (cross-tell) in 1958, via Bell 101 modems.
Mike Loewen mloe...@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/