datasaab, sweden

In 1974 not everything was rosy and cosy in the states. Despite the advances in the semiconductor and minicomputer technology the place to look at in regard to networking was canada, as they found

a sensible middle path between the state-ownership policies of Europe and the private system of the US, a path that permits both public and private interests to be served. 1974 | datamation march 1974

the canadians built their satellite in california and let it put to orbit by nasa. the technology was there, but who could state the note?

The facts say that a weakened regulatory body, and aggressive AT&T, a Washington political machine that has broken down, and a scarcity of Wall Street money for potential AT&T competitors (and we do wonder if AT&T has anything to do with that), all taken together, mean a forthcoming telecommunications retreat for the user community. It’s going to be harder and more expensive. The satellite case is particularly galling to American users, every time ANIK II appears literature it is a reminder of our failings. | datamation march 1974, philip h. dorn)

different time, different net, still the same, somehow

... a bespectacled 16-year-old who calls himself Marc communicates with several hundred unauthorized "tourists" on a computer magic carpet called ARPANET. This $3.3 million computer network maintained by the Defense Department provides a link between key contractors, but ARPANET has become a pen pal club, dating service and electronic magazine for youngsters and other computer hitchhikers gifted enough to join what is in effect a huge, electronic message service. In fact, TIME Correspondent Michael Moritz, working on a terminal near San Francisco, interviewed a teenage tourist in San Diego, using the ARPANET network. Marc's access to ARPANET is as easy as pi. He dials the number of a local military-base computer, provided by a friend who works there, plugs his receiver into a $125 modem (a telephone computer hookup), and tapes out a password on his $685 home terminal | time, 1982