FINITE DISTRIBUTED NETWORK, 1962/2014

01 < > 05
01 < > 02
02 < > 06
02 < > 07
02 < > 03
03 < > 04
03 < > 07
03 < > 08
04 < > 09
05 < > 06
05 < > 10
06 < > 07
06 < > 11
06 < > 12
07 < > 08
07 < > 13
08 < > 09
08 < > 14
09 < > 15
10 < > 11
10 < > 16
11 < > 12
11 < > 17
12 < > 13
12 < > 17
12 < > 19
13 < > 14
13 < > 19
14 < > 15
14 < > 20
15 < > 20
15 < > 21
16 < > 17
16 < > 18
16 < > 22
17 < > 18
18 < > 19
18 < > 22
18 < > 23
19 < > 20
19 < > 24
19 < > 25
20 < > 21
20 < > 25
20 < > 26
22 < > 23
22 < > 30
22 < > 31
23 < > 24
23 < > 31
23 < > 32
24 < > 25
24 < > 28
24 < > 32
25 < > 26
25 < > 28
26 < > 27
26 < > 29
27 < > 29
28 < > 29
28 < > 32
28 < > 33
29 < > 33
29 < > 39
30 < > 31
30 < > 36
30 < > 40
31 < > 32
31 < > 34
32 < > 34
32 < > 35
33 < > 35
33 < > 38
34 < > 35
34 < > 36
34 < > 37
35 < > 37
35 < > 38
36 < > 37
36 < > 40
36 < > 41
37 < > 38
37 < > 42
38 < > 39
38 < > 43
38 < > 44
39 < > 44
40 < > 41
40 < > 45
41 < > 42
41 < > 46
42 < > 43
42 < > 47
43 < > 44
43 < > 47
45 < > 46
46 < > 47


These are some notes from an email to the curator:

I was reading through the "Maciunas' Learning Machines" book and I saw a picture of the Paul Baran "distributed" network diagram peeking out of a pile of papers in a photograph. I've been fascinated with this diagram for over a decade and I think it's an important artifact/idea. The text is a representation of the diagram. For example:

"01 < > 05" is "Node 01 connects to Node 05"

To generate the text, I gave each node in the diagram a number. The instructions aren't the precise diagram, but they are relevant network information about it.