Note 7

FROM:   Bob Clements  

                                       Jan. 1, 1983

That's the date that people were FORCED to stop using NCP, but
TCP was being deployed, including multiple local nets on IP,
long before that.

The BBN Jericho workstations and the Fibernet (nee Cheapnet)
including the dumb-terminal servers called TCs (Terminal
Concentrators) were deployed much earlier.  The BBN RCC PDP-10s
were on their own net.  Nets (/8s) were being handed out like
jelly beans to anyone willing to implement IP and routing.  BBN
had a bunch of them.  Dan Tappan always chimes in and corrects my
memory on this.  But the -10s had a net, and the Jerichos and
Terminal Concentrators had a net implemented on fiber.  I did the
Fibernet and TC hardware, Ray T and Jim Calvin did the Jericho
software, Dan Tappan did the TC (68K assembler) TCP/IP.

The first router I worked on was a home-made wire-wrapped S-100
board that I made [actually two -- one 1822 and one Fibernet],
plugged into a Vector Graphics 8080 processor box that I brought
in from home.  It passed packets between the PTIP and the
Fibernet.  The first batch production of TCs was dated in 1981.
I have one here beside me.

And, of course, the BBN hackers weren't the only ones.

Best,
/Rcc