<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">From Bob Kahn:<br><br><blockquote type="cite"><blockquote type="cite">The Alohanet funding began (I think, because it was before my time) with funds from AFOSR. Then, around 1969, DARPA got into the picture and augmented the AF funding (via AFOSR as agent). Most likely the last funding was in FY 1974 or 75.<br></blockquote></blockquote><br>It occurs to me and others that the ARPANET access via Alohanet terminals may have been by way of a TIP at Hawaii. I am assuming though that an Alohanet terminal terminated via the Menehune on the Univ Hawaii host and that Telnet was the means by which these terminals reached the rest of the ARPANET.<br><br>I am copying Richard Binder who was at Univ Hawaii during the Alohanet period if memory serves. I hope the email address I have for him is accurate.<br><br>if you do a google search for "richard binder alohanet" you will find reference to the final report. It's a PDF scanned object <br><br><br><br><br>vint<br><br><br><br><br>On Feb 25, 2010, at 4:40 AM, Matthias Bärwolff wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">Dear all,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">I gather from the literature (largely Abramson and Kuo) that Alohanet<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">got connected to the Arpanet by means of an IMP at the Hawaii University<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in late 1972; then, by 1974 they had NCP and Telnet sufficiently up in<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the Menehune to allow terminal connections to the Arpanet; and, finally,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">in 1976 the whole project died for lack of further funding. No further<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">information was provided for the latter point.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Does anyone know a specific reason why they discontinued Alohanet? Did<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the landlines get better, and thus the raison d'etre vanished? What<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">happened to the IMP, did it stay connected to the Arpanet?<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thanks,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Matthias<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">-- <br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Matthias Bärwolff<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">www.bärwolff.de<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><br></body></html>