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[ih] MAP & BBN
- Subject: [ih] MAP & BBN
- From: johnl at iecc.com (John Levine)
- Date: 12 May 2012 03:42:06 -0000
- In-reply-to: <CAAbKA3X7fHr3NV=qSdne+Jb8=UGqR5-W6_nc8heTkpm79wmukw@mail.gmail.com>
>As an aside, I am surprised that no one has staked a prior claim for IBM
>360's, but perhaps either the prevalence of ad hoc virtual reader / virtual
>punch "mail" didn't immediately appear with CP68, or they weren't
>sufficiently connected early enough?
The virtual card chutes were fun, but it's been well documented that
there was email on CTSS in 1965, several years before CP-67 existed.
That's the earliest reference to it that I know.
R's,
John