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There was communication network (500 telex machines) , and one mainframe computer. For internet you may also need packet switching.
by _int3_ 4y ago
There was communication network (500 telex machines) , and one mainframe computer. For internet you may also need packet switching.
- deepdriver 4y agoMy understanding is that the "network" was a manually-staffed telex operations room: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290742382_Cybernetics_of_Governance_The_Cybersyn_Project_1971-1973 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290742382_Cyberneti... >Serendipitously, we found a large number of spare telex machines in one of the state-owned enterprises. Their installation followed in plants and enterprises throughout the country, as well as in industrial committees, CORFO and other government offices. A telex room with tens of machines was installed at CORFO. In practice, it was an operations room for the state-owned industry that offered an incipient nervous system for the industrial economy; it was called Cybernet The telex itself was not invented in Chile, but rather ironically in 1930s Germany: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex#Development https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex#Development
- _int3_ 4y agoThis telex machines act like terminals if you connect them to computer. They did best with technology they had. (previous government didn't know how to use them). It is remarkable what they did. And very interesting. The title is misleading.
- remram 4y agoSo it was a single "Wide-Area Network"?