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to dial TAC ports, calling either from "dumb" terminals or from computers emulating such terminals. Organizations with a large number of local terminals could install a TAC on their own site, which used a dedicated line, at up to 56 kbit/s, to connect to a switch at the nearest
Telenet location.
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and other international experts. A few minor changes, which complemented the proposed specification, were accommodated to enable
Telenet to join the agreement. Telenet adopted X.25 shortly after the protocol was published in March 1976. Its X.25 host interface was the first in the industry.
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which had their equipment in Mclean, Va. Telenet offered a much lower nighttime rate when there were few corporate customers, and this let The Source set up a modestly priced offering to tens of thousands of customers. Another prominent customer in the 1980s was
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commercial minicomputers as switches, but then migrated to a purpose-built multiprocessing switch based on 6502 microprocessors. Among the innovations of this second-generation switch was a patented arbitrated bus interface that created a
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network never used dynamic routing protocols. Multiple static routes, on a switch-by-switch basis, could be defined for fault tolerance. Network management functions continued to run on Prime minicomputers.
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Telenet network in one city, then dial out on the modems in another city to access
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and other services. PC Pursuit was popular among computer hobbyists because it sidestepped long-distance charges. In this sense, PC Pursuit was similar to the
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which would connect (that "c") them to a computer system designated as number "555" located in the same vicinity as the standard telephone "area code" 301.
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host interface. The network used statically-defined hop-by-hop routing, using
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family intelligent terminals, which communicated, via
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The network offered an email service called Telemail.
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354:Partial list of cities accessible by PC Pursuit
141:(network operations center as well as switching)
122:network, one of many networks composing today's
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854:NERDS 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet
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762:was under development in the United Kingdom.
303:Telenet supported remote concentrators for
16:American commercial packet-switched network
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803:Roberts, Dr. Lawrence G. (November 1978).
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99:Telenet had its first offices in downtown
903:, Communications Magazine, IEEE, May 2012
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805:"The Evolution of Packet Switching"
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1007:U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
263:Users could use modems on the
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1149:History of telecommunications
1062:IEEE Communications Magazine
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176:approximately 250 switches.
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187:Internal network technology
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38:was an American commercial
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165:San Francisco, California
987:Stuart L. Mathison, 1975
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27:Not to be confused with
22:Telenet (disambiguation)
411:Los Angeles, California
170:Los Angeles, California
60:Bolt Beranek and Newman
999:"Patent Bus Interface"
535:Minneapolis, Minnesota
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299:Other access protocols
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288:The Source
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317:2780/3780
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340:Internet
313:IBM 370x
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130:Coverage
124:Internet
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75:ARPANET
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36:Telenet
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232:CCITT
197:Prime
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