?Report on the Status of the Tom Swift Terminal Design?

Publication TypeJournal Article
AuthorsFelsenstein, Lee
SourceLGG Engineering, LGG Engineering, Volume 1, Issue 1, Berkeley, CA (1976)
Keywordsbibliographic
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.