03-03-2023, 10:53 PM
Hawaii was so far ahead of it's time with ALOHAnet, it became the basis for computer communication, and much of what was to come. This article describes the beginning of our current day computers with ALTO, and be sure top scroll down to the mockup of the Dynabook from 1968. Remember 1968 when we still had rotary phones and a 13 channel knob attached to our TV sets? Some people can see into the future.
On 22 May 1973, Metcalfe wrote a memo describing his “ETHER Network.” His design built on networking technology from the famed Arpanet, then being constructed, along with an experimental digital radio network developed at the University of Hawaii called ALOHAnet. By November 1973, Metcalfe and another PARC researcher, David Boggs, had developed a network that began to come to life inside the research center.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto
On 22 May 1973, Metcalfe wrote a memo describing his “ETHER Network.” His design built on networking technology from the famed Arpanet, then being constructed, along with an experimental digital radio network developed at the University of Hawaii called ALOHAnet. By November 1973, Metcalfe and another PARC researcher, David Boggs, had developed a network that began to come to life inside the research center.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/xerox-alto