IPSANET was a packet switching network written by I. P. Sharp Associates (IPSA). Operation began in May 1976. It initially used the IBM 3705 Communications Controller and Computer Automation LSI-2 computers as nodes. An Intel 80286 based-node was added in 1987. It was called the Beta node.
The original purpose was to connect low-speed dumb terminals to a central time sharing host in Toronto. It was soon modified to allow a terminal to connect to an alternate host running the SHARP APL software under license. Terminals were initially either 2741-type machines based on the 14.8 characters/s IBM Selectric typewriter or 30 character/s ASCII machines. Link speed was limited to 9600 bit/s until about 1984.
Other services including 2780/3780 Bisync support, remote printing, X.25 gateway and SDLC pipe lines were added in the 1978 to 1984 era. There was no general purpose data transport facility until the introduction of Network Shared Variable Processor (NSVP) in 1984. This allowed APL programs running on different hosts to communicate via Shared Variables.
Looking ahead
I’d want to see your world burn
Look in my head
Certain things I can’t figure out
Lend me your hand
Oh, one who makes the world turn
Tell me your plans
I am so misguided, lost and must not think aloud or on my own
I want to meet God
Spit in his disembodied face
I live in the now
Not imaginary past times
Divine judgment at death
Hypocritical actions of
Discriminative
And forcibly violent
Against others with faith just as blind as their own
Depressed when they compare themselves to God
Love thy neighbors, and thy enemy…
Yet may their blood spill if they preach another name!
Speak Religiously
Talk to me, now successfully negating the omnipotence of your so called man in the sky
He has made people feeble and weak, complasive, fanatical, unreasonable in moral
Valuations, self-loathing; slaves to a system that causes more harm than good
(Mindless fools that use a lack of empirical knowledge to affirm God)
Can we affirm God? Can we do this?
So let’s go chopping off heads
I wouldn’t settle for less
Let’s go chopping off heads
I wouldn’t settle for less than that
I believe I know wrong from right
We seem to forget about the middle ages
Nailing motherfuckers right to boards
Impaling all the men who won’t conform
We will have nothing of pagans
We will have them exterminated
We have the threat eliminated
Your fruit of afterlife now negated
This is the process of the light
This is the progress of a lie
Lucifer’s eyes
This is a hymn
You’re afraid of a mind
Full of knowledge
So you prey on the weak
The ones so lost and hopeless and without family
It’s the money your God needs
Filling the pockets of pastors and preachers molesting our kids