from
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)
Aloha Net
<networking> (From the Hawaiian greeting) One of the first
functioning {networks} in the USA, conceived and implimented
at the {University of Hawaii} campus at Manoa. Its purpose
was to link the University {mainframe} computer to client
computers located on outer islands at University campuses.
Put in place in the early 1970s, it was dubed the Aloha Net.
{Key punch} cards were fed through a reader, and sent over the
commercial phone lines.
(1995-12-10)