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| | Ed Roberts |
 | | Ed Roberts was the founder of Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) which built the Altair 8800, one of the very first hobbyist personal computers. |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/E/Ed-Roberts.htm
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| | Silicon Radio/Larry Roberts |
| | Although he was convinced the concept of computers communicating with each other would be "the next step of evolution for the computer field and the next major step for mankind," not everyone shared his enthusiasm. | | | Phone company executives told Roberts that transferring information over the Internet via a concept called packet switching would "blow up in his face." Even the academic and research communities didn't want anything to do with a publicly accessible Internet system. | | | Roberts, winner of the 1981 Erickson Award, began thinking about creating a computer network way back in 1962. |
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http://www.transmitmedia.com/svr/vault/roberts
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| | Pere Ubu Bios |
| | Robert worked for Digital Equipment Corporation (now Compaq) for 18.696 years repairing computers, he is now System Manager for Digital Alphas and an IBM AS/400 at a local hospital. | | | Recognizing that a fundamental theme of Mr Thomas' work is the gestalt of culture, geography and sound, the Department of Cultural Geography at Clark University (Worcester MA) commissioned a lecture, "The Geography of Sound In The Magnetic Age," in 1996, delivered, as well, at the Gerrit Rietveld Akademie, Amsterdam, later that year. | | | A Mac Evangelist since W95 (Thanx to John Thompson and David Thomas), "My Mac can do everything your windows can, except get viruses." |
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http://ubuprojex.net/bio.html
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| | Larry Roberts |
| | Roberts, a respected computer scientist with good management skills who also had networking experience (which was a rare commodity in those days) was the ideal candidate to lead ARPA's networking project. | | | Indeed, Taylor had said that the job would put Roberts in position to become IPTO Director when Taylor stepped down, but Roberts was happy where he was and did not want to leave. | | | Roberts was a shy man who was well-respected in his field. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/roberts.html
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| | Technomanifestos: Interface message processor |
| | , suggested to Roberts that instead of adding networking capabilities to each of the host computers at the varied sites, they could build separate dedicated computers to route information between hosts and the network. | | | Roberts sent out a memorandum describing Clark's idea, calling the computers "interface message processors". | | | At a 1967 Ann Arbor computer conference where Larry Roberts presented his intial plans for the ARPAnet to memebers of the Intergalactic Network, [Wes Clark] ? |
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http://www.technomanifestos.com/index.pl?Interface_message_processor
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| | Larry Roberts |
| | Roberts, a respected computer scientist with good management skills who also had networking experience (which was a rare commodity in those days) was the ideal candidate to lead ARPA's networking project. | | | Roberts was a shy man who was well-respected in his field. | | | Indeed, Taylor had said that the job would put Roberts in position to become IPTO Director when Taylor stepped down, but Roberts was happy where he was and did not want to leave. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/roberts.html
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| | InternetChronology |
| | When Roberts refused, Taylor appealed to ARPA Director Charlie Hertzfeld who then put pressure on the Director of Lincoln Labs who then convinced Roberts to take the ARPA job. | | | Oct-65 First Actual Network Experiment, Lincoln Labs TX-2 tied to SDC's Q32, Lawrence Roberts, MIT Lincoln Labs. | | | This was the critical turning point where Lick's Internet concept is transferred to Roberts to be implemented. |
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http://www.ziplink.net/~lroberts/InternetChronology.html
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| | ARPANET IMP, Interface Message Processor |
| | Roberts' plan called for each site to write the software to connect their computer to the network, which looked like a lot of work to the attendees since there were so many different kinds of computers and operating systems in use throughout the DARPA community. | | | Lawrence Roberts and Barry Wessler used this report to write a final version of the IMP specification, describing communications standards for different computers, and presented it at the DARPA Principal Investigators meeting in June, 1968. | | | The idea for the Interface Message Processor (IMP) was suggested by Wesley Clark at the "ARPANET Design Session" held by Lawrence Roberts at the IPTO Principal Investigator meeting in Ann Arbor Michigan in April, 1967. |
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http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_imp.htm
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| | Interface Message Processor |
| | Roberts' plan called for each site to write the software to connect their computer to the network, which looked like a lot of work to the attendees since there were so many different kinds of computers and operating systems in use throughout the DARPA community. | | | Lawrence Roberts and Barry Wessler used this report to write a final version of the IMP specification, describing communications standards for different computers, and presented it at the DARPA Principal Investigators meeting in June, 1968. | | | After the meeting Roberts stayed behind and Clark elaborated on his concept -- deploy a minicomputer called an "interface message processor" at each site to handle the interface to the ARPANET network, so each site would only have to write one interface to the one standard IMP. |
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http://www.livinginternet.org/i/ii_imp.htm
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| | Old life left on the shelf - smh.com.au |
| | Happy to stay where he is for the time being, Roberts says he can see a long-term future for himself in computers - perhaps in a consulting position or turning his passion for animation into a commercial venture. | | | After quitting an engineering degree, Roberts had applied for job after job - "just anything that looked OK" - only to be knocked back because he had no qualifications. | | | Luke Roberts, 23, was working at night stacking shelves in Myer when he saw an advertisement for a computer technician. |
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2002/08/31/1030508128116.html
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| | InternetChronology |
| | Oct-66 First Paper on Network Experiments, Thomas Marill and Lawrence Roberts, "Toward a Cooperative Network of Time-Shared Computers", Fall AFIPS Conf. | | | This experiment was the first time two computers talked to each other and the first time packets were used to communicate between computers. | | | Jul-65 Contract to Tomas Marill at CCA from Roberts at Lincoln Lab to program the network experiment. |
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http://www.ziplink.net/~lroberts/InternetChronology.html
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| | Roberts, Lawrence G, "The Arpanet and Computer Networks," in A History of Personal Workstations, ed. | | | From: bm665@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jay Robert Hauben) Newsgroups: alt.amateur-comp,alt.folklore.computers,sci.econ,news.future Subject: ACN 5-1/2 Pt 5: Computers for the People (A History Pt V) Computers for the People: A History Part V (continued from ACN vol 4 no 4) In an article called "How We Trapped the Dinosaurs," (from Creative Computing, Nov. 1984, pg. | | | Lawrence G. Roberts, The Arpanet and Computer Networks, pg. |
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http://www.dorje.com/netstuff/folklore/acn.articles
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| | Lawrence Roberts - ARPANET Program Manager |
| | In October, 1966, Roberts and Marill published a paper titled Toward a Cooperative Network of Time-Shared Computers at the Fall AFIPS Conference, documenting their networking experiments. | | | In February, 1965, the director of the IPTO, Ivan Sutherland, gave a contract to Roberts to develop a computer network, and, in July, to Thomas Marill (who had also been inspired by Licklider) to program the network. | | | In a pivotal meeting in November, 1964, Roberts met with J.C.R. Licklider, who inspired Roberts with his dream to build a wide area communications network. |
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http://www.livinginternet.com/i/ii_roberts.htm
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| | Ed Roberts: Information From Answers.com |
| | ED ROBERTS was the founder and president of Micro Instrumentation and Telemetry Systems (MITS) which built the Altair 8800, one of the very first hobbyist personal computers. | | | As a teenager, he created circuitry for analog and digital computers. | | | In the fall of 1970, the company split up over an agreement about the direction of the company, as Roberts wanted to start producing calculators, while Cagle and Mims wanted to create an infrared alarm system. |
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http://www.answers.com/topic/ed-roberts
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| | Larry Roberts |
| | Roberts, a respected computer scientist with good management skills who also had networking experience (which was a rare commodity in those days) was the ideal candidate to lead ARPA's networking project. | | | The small computers could also remain under more direct ARPA control than were the large host computers. | | | Roberts was a shy man who was well-respected in his field. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/roberts.html
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| | InternetChronology |
| | The ARPANET program as proposed to Congress by Roberts was to explore computer resource sharing and packet switched communications and had nothing to do with nuclear war or survivability. | | | It was at this meeting that Wes Clark suggested the use of mini-computers for network packet switches instead of using the main frame computers themselves for switching. | | | Even though this Rand work was based on this premise, the ARPANET and the Internet stemmed from the MIT work of Licklider, Kleinrock and Roberts, and had no relation to Baran's work. |
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http://www.ziplink.net/~lroberts/InternetChronology.html
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| | Chris Brown |
| | Yettram, A.L. and Brown, C.J., The Elastic Stability of Square Perforated Plates, Computers and Structures, vol. | | | Brown, C.J., Elastic Buckling of Perforated Plates Subjected to Concentrated Loads, Computers and Structures, vol. | | | Brown, C.J., Rectangular Silo Structures, In Silos; Fundamentals of Theory, Behaviour and Design (Brown C.J. and Nielsen J. eds) Spon, pp. |
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http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sed/sedstaff/mech/chrisbrown
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| | InternetChronology |
| | Telenet created a way to connect computers to the network without a specialized hardware interface by introducing and standardizing X.25 for network to host computer interfacing. | | | It was at this meeting that Wes Clark suggested the use of mini-computers for network packet switches instead of using the main frame computers themselves for switching. | | | Oct-68 Network Measurement Center at UCLA contracted by Roberts at ARPA to Leonard Kleinrock at UCLA to undertake ARPANET measurement. |
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http://www.ziplink.net/~lroberts/InternetChronology.html
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| | Force announces high-performance ATX PowerServers with high functionality and lowest total cost of ownership |
| | Force Computers, a Solectron company, has announced the Force PowerServer (FPS) line of high-performance ATX system solutions with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) for any embedded platform. | | | Tony Roberts, Force Computers UK Tel: 01908 524133 | | | Force systems offer capabilities for Ultra Availability, remote system management and platform management as well as featuring telecom protocol software, telecom controllers and chassis compatible with NEBS Level 3 and ETSI building practices for 1U to 15U standard servers and custom integrated solutions. |
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http://www.realtime-info.be/VPR/layout/display/pr.asp?PRID=4360
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| | EARLY HISTORY OF THE PERSONAL COMPUTER |
| | Disk drives had long been used with mainframe computers but they were too expensive for the low cost home computers the industry was trying to develop. | | | Ed Roberts decided to call his computer the Altair after the name of a planet in a StarTrek episode Les Solomon's daughter was watching. | | | Lee Felsenstein also designed the Osborne Computer, the first portable computer. |
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http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/pc.htm
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| | Draper Laboratory - Draper Prize 2001 |
| | Roberts drew on concepts of a global computer network for time-sharing computers proposed in 1962 by J.C.R. Licklider of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), who was the first head of computer research projects at ARPA. | | | Roberts, a former MIT researcher who had joined the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), published the plan for a key forerunner of the Internet, ARPANET, in 1967. | | | Kahn and Roberts discussed their role in the development of the Internet and their predictions for its future at a lecture hosted by Boston's Museum of Science on May 1, 2001. |
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http://www.draper.com/corporate/drprize/dp01.htm
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| | Larry Roberts |
| | In 1965, a psychologist named Tom Marill, who had studied under Licklider and been influenced by his interest in computers, approached ARPA and proposed a project to conduct an experiment linking Lincoln Lab's TX-2 computer to the SDC Q-32 computer in Santa Monica. | | | Roberts, a respected computer scientist with good management skills who also had networking experience (which was a rare commodity in those days) was the ideal candidate to lead ARPA's networking project. | | | Taylor went to ARPA's director, Charles Herzfeld, and asked him to persuade Lincoln Lab's director to talk Roberts into taking the position. |
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http://www.ibiblio.org/pioneers/roberts.html
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| | TMA03 |
| | Frank Heart - He was the Project Manager for the "IMP" P roject and together with his team - the "IMP guys" he designed and built the IMP sub network computers at BBN. | | | Bob Taylor - Between 1966 and 1969, Taylor was director of IPTO (Information Processing Techniques Office) within ARPA (Advanced Research Projects Agency), where he initiated and secured funding for the ARPAnet experiments and hired a reluctant Larry Roberts. | | | Larry Roberts - Roberts wrote the first electronic-mail manager for the Net's first (and still most) killer app. |
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http://www.pgormanly.freeserve.co.uk/
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| | The Risks Digest Index to Volume 3 |
| | Computers and the Stock Market (again) (Robert Stroud) | | | The Old Saw about Computers and TMI (Ken Dymond) | | | Announcement of Berkeley Conference on the SDI (Eric Roberts) |
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http://catless.newcastle.ac.uk/Risks/index.3.html
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| | Moviefone: Movie Celebrities - Scott Roberts: MAIN |
| | Scott Roberts - Butte College Computers and More | | | are available for $2.95 each from Scott Roberts at PO BOX 546, Monsey NY,10952. | | | You can enable both via your browser's preference settings. |
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http://movies.aol.com/celebrity/main.adp?sid=108490
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| | 1975malt.htm |
| | People sent checks in sight unseen - completely on the faith they Ed Roberts realized that his Altair 8800 computer needed software - a computer language - to make it really useful. | | | Things never settled down - in one day they sold 200 computers over the phone. | | | This company's name was MITS - which stood for Model Instrumentation Telemetry Systems - and it's owner was a fellow named Ed Roberts who had previously written some articles for the magazine. |
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http://www.cis.usouthal.edu/faculty/daigle/project1/1975malt.htm
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| | Altair History |
| | Now, you can argue the point, but it is generally accepted that the MITS Altair, circa 1975, was the first mass produced, commercially successful personal computer, and Ed Roberts, with some help, masterminded its creation and success. | | | Minicomputers cost more than the Altair and IBM Mainframe computers and Super Computers were very expensive. | | | The Altair was called a "Hobbyist Computer" because few users could afford enough parts and peripherals to built a "complete" computer system. |
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http://www.virtualaltair.com/virtualaltair.com/vac_history.asp
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| | Computer History Museum - Exhibits - Collection Highlights - Altair 8800 |
| | Roberts points out that the Altair increased the installed base of computers in the world by 1% each month during 1975-76. | | | The company was eventually superceded by other, more powerful and flexible computers, in particular a triumvirate of mass-produced, consumer-friendly machines: the Apple II, Commodore PET, and Tandy/Radio Shack TRS-80. | | | The demand for the $395.00 machine exceeded MITS' wildest expectations. |
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http://www.computerhistory.org/exhibits/highlights/altair.shtml
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| | Apple II History Chap 1 |
| | Roberts and the editor, Les Solomon, decided to call the computer the "Altair 8800"; it measured 18-inches deep by 17 inches wide by 7 inches high, and it weighed in at a massive 256 bytes (that's one fourth of a "K"). | | | The difficulty MITS had in supplying the demand for computers also led to the creation of other similar computers that used the 8080. | | | All this was promised from a computer that came "complete" with only 256 bytes of memory (expandable if you could afford it) and no keyboard, monitor, or storage device. |
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| | People sent checks in sight unseen - completely on the faith they Ed Roberts realized that his Altair 8800 computer needed software - a computer language - to make it really useful. | | | This company's name was MITS- which stood for Model Instrumentation Telemetry Systems - and it's owner was a fellow named Ed Roberts who had previously written some articles for the magazine. | | | Things never settled down - in one day they sold 200 computers over the phone. |
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