Answer by David Marshall for What did corporations use for long-distance...
To give an example from before the 1980s. In 1974 I started work for a company which had depots and warehouses throughout the UK. Customers phoned orders to their local warehouse where they were...
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In 1978 Xerox contemplated a remote document delivery service via a combination of satellite and microwave communications. In 1983 Fedex contemplated a similar service. Neither was built.
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Was a short time intern at my local bank in Sweden in 1982 - the local branch computer was connected to the main frame in Stockholm via leased line, so a specialized version of RJE.
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If you had the need for WAN in the 1980s (not many, even large corporations did, IT was still often built as islands, maybe with the exception of banking, finance and accounting), you had the following...
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Leased LinesLeased lines are always at the bottom of each network, no matter whether they are made as twisted pair of galvanic coupled wire, dynamic amplified lines, fiber or satellite link. They may...
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Corporations needing such connectivity (which was still unusual in the 80s, outside the realm of large corporations) typically used leased lines, i.e. private point-to-point connections leased from a...
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Although ARPANET was invented in 1969, the Internet as publicly available infrastructure didn't really become available until 1989. But people were certainly using computers as communication tools in...
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