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A Rule Tested Between Hawaiian Islands Changed How Shared Networks Speak

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From RN Collins, selected work

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Research cited

  1. THE ALOHANET — SURFING FOR WIRELESS DATA (eng.hawaii.edu) eng.hawaii.edu
  2. Jresv86n6p591 A1b (nvlpubs.nist.gov) nvlpubs.nist.gov
  3. dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/360248.360253 dl.acm.org
  4. 50 years of alohanet (hawaii.edu) hawaii.edu
  5. manoa.hawaii.edu/news/article.php manoa.hawaii.edu

Other sources

  1. ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19750023705 ntrs.nasa.gov
  2. How alohanet helped hawaii make waves networking and it innovation (statetechmagazine.com) statetechmagazine.com

Images, slide by slide

Slide 1
A 1971 photograph of ALOHAnet equipment at the University of Hawaiʻi: a video terminal and the rack unit labeled ALOHA TCU, the terminal control unit, in a window office with Diamond Head behindPhoto: Norm Abramson/UH MānoaPhoto record
Slide 2
Illustrative photo: a 1973 photograph of an ALOHAnet user terminal with the ALOHA PCU, the programmable control unit, on a desk at the University of Hawaiʻi, Diamond Head behindSource: Abramson, IEEE ComMag 2009Photo record (IEEE Communications Magazine, December 2009, p. 23, Figure 2)
Slide 3
Illustrative photo: the Hawaiian Islands seen from the International Space Station in January 2014, with Oʻahu, Molokaʻi, Maui and Hawaiʻi Island in viewPhoto: NASAPhoto record
Slide 4
Illustrative photo: a 1970s Experimental Packet Radio rack (Rockwell radio unit and digital unit, Collins Radio) from DARPA's Packet Radio Program, on display at the Computer History MuseumPhoto: Marcin Wichary, croppedPhoto record
Slide 5
Illustrative photo: a Hewlett-Packard 2100 minicomputer with tape drives and a printer, photographed at the European Southern Observatory in Chile in 1974Photo: ESO, croppedPhoto record (https://www.eso.org/public/images/potw1223a/)
Slide 6a
Illustrative photo: the Wilfred J. Holmes Hall, College of Engineering sign at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, the building where the ALOHA System was developedSource: ETHW (IEEE History Center)Photo record
Slide 6b
Black-and-white studio portrait of Franklin Kuo as a younger man in a dark jacket, white shirt and striped tie, photographed as a framed print on a grey wallPhoto: Masao Miyamoto, UH ArchivesPhoto record
Slide 7a
Illustrative photo: a rack of SRI International packet radio equipment from DARPA's packet radio program (a Gateway, a Packet Radio Ministation and a Terminal/Host Interface Unit), on display at the Computer History MuseumPhoto: Marcin WicharyPhoto record
Slide 7b
Illustrative photo: a 10BASE5 Ethernet transceiver (an AMP tap with a Cabletron ST-500 unit) clamped onto a yellow coaxial cablePhoto: FernostPhoto record
Slide 8
The ALOHAnet satellite dish on the roof of Holmes Hall at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, with some of the College of Engineering team standing in front, in an undated photograph courtesy of Ram ChandranPhoto: courtesy Ram ChandranPhoto record
Slide 9
The IEEE Milestone plaque for the demonstration of the ALOHA packet radio data network, 1971, installed at Holmes Hall, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, photographed as an objectSource: ETHW (IEEE History Center)Photo record
Slide 10a
Illustrative photo: a public Wi-Fi sticker with the Wi-Fi icon on a lamp post in Vienna, AustriaPhoto: Herzi PinkiPhoto record
Slide 10b
Illustrative photo: the front of a white 5-port Edimax Fast Ethernet hub, a shared-medium network box, with a Power light, a COL (collision) light and numbered port lightsPhoto: George ShuklinPhoto record
Slide 10c
Illustrative photo: the front of an 8-port Netgear DS108 dual-speed Ethernet hub, with rows of small indicator lights marked Col (collision) and Utilization %, a built-in readout of how much of a shared channel is in usePhoto: heimnetzwerke.netPhoto record

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