I’m in IT. I think I’m going to put this up in my office as a conversation starter.
Do you know what all the abbreviations stand for? Are the ovals individual servers or local networks?
It’s very cool. Thanks for posting.
I went to CWRU - I assume that’s what CASE in the diagram represents?
PDP-10s and 11s are Digital Equipment Corp mainframes. The 360s and 370s are IBM mainframes. IMPs are interface message processors, Honeywell minicomputers functioning as routers. The Honeywells also could function as terminal interface processors, TIPs
Given the link to CMU (shown as Carnegie) I would think so. The schools merged in 1967, but they were still trying to sort out what to call it years later - Case Reserve was the official short form at one point, although the common usage was Case Western. They even tried a run at just ‘Case’ at one point, but I don’t think that flew with the old Western Reserve donors. I can see why the old engineering types would have still used ‘Case’ less than a decade after the merger. They probably didn’t want to acknowledge the ties to the other folks.
I know what a lot of them stand for. Many are universities, pretty obvious. Some on the “east coast” right side were not. Lincoln was probably a research lab associated with MIT. BBN was “Bolt Berenak and Newman”. MITRE was the MITRE corporation - MIT Research Engineering. PDP 10 and PDP 11 were Digital Equipment Corporation “mini-computers”.
I would be surprised if any were local networks OR “servers”. We’re talking just a few generations removed from two tin cans and a string.
I know what a lot of them stand for. Many are universities, pretty obvious. Some on the “east coast” right side were not. Lincoln was probably a research lab associated with MIT. BBN was “Bolt Berenak and Newman”. MITRE was the MITRE corporation - MIT Research Engineering. PDP 10 and PDP 11 were Digital Equipment Corporation “mini-computers”. 360 was probably the IBM 360.
I would be surprised if any were local networks OR “servers”. We’re talking just a few generations removed from two tin cans and a string.