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“Report on the Status of the Tom Swift Terminal Design”

Author
Lee Felsenstein
Publication
LGG Engineering
Publisher
LGG Engineering
Date
January 1976
Place
Berkeley, California
Volume
1
Issue
1
ETC archive
ETC1165

Abstract

"The objective in the design of the Tom Swift Terminal was to produce a device which encouraged the involvement in computer hardware of amateurs who would not otherwise have incentive to do so. " The intent was to solve hardware reliability problems in the Community Memory Information retrieval system. This network was envisioned as a non-broadcast system of decentralized community information files along with neighborhood communications centers. This radical communications system was conceived as non-hierarchical, wherein any person can reach any other person who shares an interest in similar information.
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Lee Felsenstein. “Report on the Status of the Tom Swift Terminal Design”. LGG Engineering. vol. 1, no. 1. LGG Engineering. January 1976.

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"The objective in the design of the Tom Swift Terminal was to produce a device which encouraged the involvement in computer hardware of amateurs who would not otherwise have incentive to do so. " The intent was to solve hardware reliability problems in the Community Memory Information retrieval system. This network was envisioned as a non-broadcast system of decentralized community information files along with neighborhood communications centers. This radical communications system was conceived as non-hierarchical, wherein any person can reach any other person who shares an interest in similar information.

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