<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">This is a question for Gordon Peterson, the chief scientist (or something like that) at Datapoint. The company’s LAN was called ARCNet, but that may not be the original name.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">RB<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 13, 2019, at 1:57 PM, Jorge Amodio <<a href="mailto:jmamodio@gmail.com" class="">jmamodio@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi There,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I've got involved for some time now with the San Antonio Museum of Science and Technology, and I'm sort of becoming a Master Curator on a program I'm creating to catalog, organize and design several exhibits of vintage computers particularly from Datapoint Corporation, earlier known as Computer Terminal Corporation, founded in San Antonio, TX in 1968.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">There are some interesting stories around CTC & Datapoint, where actually one of the first personal computers was designed and manufactured, 10+ years earlier than the IBM PC.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">While working on basic research, I stumbled onto two documents from 1977 where the INTERNET term was used.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">First document is an internal Datapoint Interoffice Memo dated Nov 1, 1977. Subject of the document was "INTERNET Press Announcement" and part of the text says "INTERNET will be officially announced in conjunction with the annual shareholders meeting December 1, 1977 at the Marriott Essex House..."<br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The second document is Morgan Stanley Progress Report for Datapoint Corporation (DPT-NYSE) which on part of the text includes "On December 1, 1977, we expect the Company will announce a major new system-oriented, primarily software-based product, probably dubbed "Internet." As we understand it, Internet is a package of system programs which utilizes a microprocessor-controlled coaxial cable as a means to tie together the individual independent operations of a large number of intelligent terminals, file processors, and/or application-dedicated satellite processors...."</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Does anybody know about it and has any further references ?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">If somebody is interested in a copy of the documents I've both scanned on pdf format.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks & Regards</div><div class="">Jorge</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div>
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