networking (From the Hawaiian greeting) One of the first

functioning networks in the USA, conceived and implimented

at the University of Hawaii campus at Manoa. Its purpose

was to link the University mainframe computer to client

computers located on outer islands at University campuses.

Put in place in the early 1970s, it was dubed the Aloha Net.

Key punch cards were fed through a reader, and sent over the

commercial phone lines.