From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Tue May 07 2002 - 08:11:41 MDT
KPJ wrote:
>
> It appears as if Harvey Newstrom <mail@HarveyNewstrom.com> wrote:
> |
> |On Tuesday, May 7, 2002, at 12:27 am, Samantha Atkins wrote:
> |> Really? I don't remember it being all-military use. Many universities
> |> had stuff on it and the access wasn't that well controlled at all.
> |
> |This is true. If you weren't working on a military project, you
> |probably didn't see any military stuff. However, Arpanet/Darpanet was
> |funded by the military. They didn't let sites on unless they had a
> |reason to connect to that site. Somebody at your university made it
> |worthwhile for the military to connect to that site.
>
> ARPANET was interconnected to the TYMNET.
> TYMNET could be accessed via X.25 from just about everywhere.
> A number of hackers used X.25 PADs to access ARPANET that way from Sweden.
Ja, as a 7th grader I had a TYMshare account through Dartmouth's Kiewit
Center. I'd log in at Lebanon High School through a teletype terminal,
dialing up at 200 baud with those modems you stuck the handset into. It
was the only way I had to test my BASIC programs until the Junior High
bought a TI-99.
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