> From nanog-bounces+bonomi=mail.r-bonomi....@nanog.org Thu Nov 17 14:53:57 > 2011 > Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:52:33 -0500 (EST) > From: Jay Ashworth <j...@baylink.com> > To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> > Subject: Re: economic value of low AS numbers > > ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Dave Hart" <daveh...@gmail.com> > >> On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 19:08, David Conrad <d...@virtualized.org> >> wrote: >> > whois -h whois.arin.net 42 >> >> RFC 943: >> >> 42 THINK-AS [BJN1] >> >> [BJN1] Bruce Nemnich TMC b...@mit-mc.arpa >> >> I have no idea which registry was maintaining AS number registrations >> when AS42 changed hands. I suppose it's possible the current >> registrant acquired or merged with whatever entity THINK refers to, >> but I doubt it, so it seems likely at least at one time transfers were >> reflected in updated registrations. > > I'd be shocked, shocked I tell... oh, yes; put the money over here please. > > Shocked, I tell you, if that wasn't Thinking Machines Corp., which was > formed by MIT grads, as I remember it. > > The real question is whether it was issued after HHGTTG.
I think it was abaout the time they clustered a group of nine 6-node machines.