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[Marghanita da Cruz]

Jan Whitaker wrote:
> At 05:52 PM 26/03/2009, Carl Makin wrote:
>> Our network guys were also for TCP/IP but the government was still
>> enamoured with GOSIP and DECNET was claimed to be moving towards GOSIP
>> compliance.
> 
> I remember the first time I heard of TCP/IP. I was on a grants panel 
> for the National Science Foundation in Princeton, New Jersey. The 
> applicants that asked for TCP/IP conversion or support in their 
> projects got the funds. This was in the early 90s, probably like 91 
> or 92. I remember the IT manager from Stanford giving us a quick 
> course in the upcoming protocol and how important it was. Oh, and it 
> was also the era of universities wanting mass spectrometers and gas 
> chromatographs. Those are the analysis devices you see in all the 
> forensic shows now, where they spit out the nice compound analysis graphs. :-)
> 
Jan,

I think the Mass Spectrometers and Chromatographs are a little older than that -
I seem to recall them from my Chemistry Studies at UWA circa 1980.

Marghanita
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