[ih] Anyone know about Unison Online Service from back in 1985-1987?

[Joly MacFie]

Hi Dan,

I see it a mention here https://www1.freewebs.com/gordonlaird/2-7ecun.htm

*Later that year (1986), the UNISON system became involved in an ownership
issue. This caused a great deal of concern over the future of Ecunet, Inc.
on Unison, and a group was delegated to explore potential new homes. The
"scouts" eventually recommended a move to a system based out of Hartford,
Connecticut, using the same "Participate" software we had worked with on
UNISON.*

joly

On Sun, May 16, 2021 at 9:28 PM Dan York via Internet-history <
internet-history at elists.isoc.org> wrote:

> Low priority question for the group - anyone know about “Unison Online
> Service” that was apparently an online service from 1985-1987?
>
> In my personal late-night Wikipedia editing, I came across a notice that
> this page has no references supporting any of the text, seems to have been
> created BY the person originally involved (Fred Dudden), and should
> probably be deleted (given that there are no sources that talk about the
> service):
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unison_Online_Service
>
> The editor raising this point asked, before kicking off the deletion
> process, if anyone had any info about the service, or any links to online
> sources or journals that might have any info about it. The idea being to
> establish that the service was “notable” enough to warrant a Wikipedia page.
>
> In doing some various searches, I couldn’t find any sources with info, but
> thought I’d ask here. If anyone remembers that service or can point to any
> info about it, I would appreciate the info.
>
> And if not, that’s fine, too. I just thought I’d ask.
>
> Dan
>
> P.S. I also looked in the good old book “!%@::” from O’Reilly (1994
> version) and found no reference, but the book was looking mostly at larger
> networks. This service sounds like it might have been a BBS someone was
> running.
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