Back in the late 80's or early 90s I attended one of Bill Hancock's Decus sessions on networking. It was very entertaining, and included discussions of an early network protocol (tcp/ip?) at the University of Hawaii where actual transmitters &receivers were used with antennas instead of a cable.
Back in the late 80's or early 90s I attended one of Bill Hancock's Decus s= >essions on networking. It was very entertaining, and included discussions = >of an early network protocol (tcp/ip?) at the University of Hawaii where ac= >tual transmitters & receivers were used with antennas instead of a cable. T= >he punchline of that joke ended with "and of course Russian trawlers off th= >e coast could listen in to these transmissions - unfortunately copying stud= >ents Fortran homework set back Russian computing by a decade or more".
Anyway, I'd love to get a chance to listen to that again - does anyone know=
what happened to all the Decus symposium masters, or anyone who collected =
the audiotapes?
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