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--></style></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Joly,<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>EMISARI was mainframe based (corroborated here: <a href="https://www.livinginternet.com/r/ri_emisari.htm">https://www.livinginternet.com/r/ri_emisari.htm</a> ).<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Marc Handelman<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>us.m.h@ieee.org<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:black'><internet-history-bounces@postel.org> on behalf of Joly MacFie <joly@punkcast.com><br><b>Reply-To: </b><joly@punkcast.com><br><b>Date: </b>Sunday, October 1, 2017 at 11:38<br><b>To: </b>"internet-history@postel.org" <internet-history@postel.org><br><b>Subject: </b>[ih] EMISARI<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><br clear=all><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>Listening to PBS yesterday, there was an interveiew about the history of FEMA, and they mentioned EMISARI as being the Ur of chat software. I had heard of PLATO and EIES, but never EMISARI.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I googled and found 1) a related story in Wired - <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/the-secret-history-of-fema/">https://www.wired.com/story/the-secret-history-of-fema/</a> and 2) this book excerpt <a href="http://bit.ly/2fIe8Qw">http://bit.ly/2fIe8Qw</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Questions: Packet-based? Relied on a central server? Any further insights?<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>It would seem Murray Turoff deserves wider recognition.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Turoff">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Turoff</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>-- <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>---------------------------------------------------------------<br>Joly MacFie <span class=gc-cs-link>218 565 9365</span> Skype:punkcast<br>--------------------------------------------------------------<br>-<o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>_______ internet-history mailing list internet-history@postel.org http://mailman.postel.org/mailman/listinfo/internet-history Contact list-owner@postel.org for assistance. <o:p></o:p></p></div></body></html>