Artifact Details

Title

ALOHAnet Panel oral history

Catalog Number

102802997

Type

Document

Description

The ALOHA System project, also known as Alohanet, ran from late-1968 to the mid-1970s in the Electrical Engineering and Information Sciences departments at the University of Hawaii. Initiated by professors Norm Abramson, Frank Kuo and Wes Peterson, the research project resulted in an innovative packet radio network that connected user terminals and an Arpanet satellite to the department’s timeshared mainframe computer. Its random-access, broadcast channel used by the terminals was a paradigm shift away from the modus operandi of sharing a communication channel by time or frequency division multiplexing. In this on-line session, Robert Garner & Marc Weber interview Frank Kuo and the four main Alohanet hardware and software designers, covering their responsibilities, design details, challenges, and associated recollections and anecdotes.
Frank Kuo, Project Manager and Co-Principal Investigator
Richard Binder, Protocols and Software
David Wax, Radio and Modem Hardware
Alan Okinaka, Digital Hardware and Interfaces
Chris Harrison, Digital Hardware and Software

Date

2023-02-21

Contributor

Binder, Richard, Interviewee

Garner, Robert, Interviewer

Harrison, Chris, Interviewee

Kuo, Frank, Interviewee

Okinaka, Alan, Interviewee

Wax, David, Interviewee

Weber, Marc, Interviewer

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Extent

52 p.

Format

PDF

Collection Title

CHm Oral History Collection

Credit