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Nestar Systems, Inc., was an early independent manufacturer of pre-internet local area networks for personal computers from 1978 to 1986 and was considered "a pioneer in the industry". It produced three major generations of products: In 1986 Nestar was sold to Digital Switch Corporation (now DSC Communications) of Plano, Texas, which continued to develop some of the product line for about two years.

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  • Nestar Systems, Inc., was an early independent manufacturer of pre-internet local area networks for personal computers from 1978 to 1986 and was considered "a pioneer in the industry". It produced three major generations of products: * Cluster/One (September 1979) provided program file sharing for up to 30 Commodore PET, Apple ][, and Radio Shack TRS-80 personal computers. A PET with two 8" floppy disks was the program server that polled for client requests using a daisy-chained flat ribbon cable up to 250 feet long. * Cluster/One Model A (March 1980) provided general communication among Apple ][ and Apple /// personal computers using a parallel flat ribbon cable with arbitrary branching topology up to 1000 feet long. Apple ][ computers served as fileservers (with floppy disks, hard disks, and cartridge tape backup), print servers, and communications servers linking multiple networks over modems. Applications included filesharing, electronic mail, database management, and financial management. * PLAN Series (December 1982) provided general communication among Apple ][ and IBM PC personal computers using Datapoint's ARCNET network and Xerox's XNS networking protocols. Proprietary small, medium, and large servers, using Motorola 68000 microprocessors, served as file servers (including tape backup and shadow servers), spooled print servers, and communications servers. Applications included filesharing, electronic mail, database management, financial management, IBM 3270 terminal emulation to link to mainframes, Telex simulation, and interactive chat. In 1986 Nestar was sold to Digital Switch Corporation (now DSC Communications) of Plano, Texas, which continued to develop some of the product line for about two years. (en)
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  • Acquired by Digital Switch Corporation (now DSC Communications) (en)
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  • 1978-10-13 (xsd:date)
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  • 1978-01-01 (xsd:gYear)
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  • 1986 (xsd:integer)
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  • Acquired by Digital Switch Corporation (en)
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  • 1978-10-13 (xsd:date)
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  • Harry Saal, Len Shustek, Jim Hinds, Nick Fortis (en)
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  • Palo Alto, CA (en)
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  • Local area computer networking (en)
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  • Nestar Systems logo.jpg (en)
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  • Nestar Systems, Inc. (en)
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  • Cluster/One and PLAN series local area networks; BASIC Programmer's Toolkit (en)
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  • Palo Alto ICs (en)
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  • Privately held company (en)
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  • Nestar Systems, Inc., was an early independent manufacturer of pre-internet local area networks for personal computers from 1978 to 1986 and was considered "a pioneer in the industry". It produced three major generations of products: In 1986 Nestar was sold to Digital Switch Corporation (now DSC Communications) of Plano, Texas, which continued to develop some of the product line for about two years. (en)
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