Ndeipi yemasangano aya yaizova isina hanya zvikuru nezvikoro zveSAT: IBM kana kuti Michigan State University? Tichifunga nezvemubvunzo wapfuura, nyora mashoko akapoteredza mhinduro yacho. Inogona kuva mitsara 1 - 20. Mashoko akapoteredza:
Merit Network, Inc., yakazvimiririra isingabatsiri 501 ((c) ((3) mubatanidzwa unotongwa nemayunivhesiti eruzhinji eMichigan, yakaumbwa muna 1966 seMichigan Educational Research Information Triad kuti iongorore makomputa enetiweki pakati pemayunivhesiti matatu eruzhinji eMichigan senzira yekubatsira kusimudzira dzidzo nehupfumi hwenyika. Nokutsigirwa kwokutanga kubva kuHurumende yeMichigan neNational Science Foundation (NSF), packet-switched network yakatanga kuratidzwa muna December 1971 apo sangano rinopindirana rekugamuchira sangano rakaitwa pakati pe IBM mainframe computer systems paYunivhesiti yeMichigan muAnn Arbor uye Wayne State University muDetroit. Muna October 1972 kubatana neCDC mainframe paMichigan State University muEast Lansing kwakapedza utatu hwacho. Kwemakore anoverengeka akatevera kuwedzera kune anogamuchira kugamuchira kubatana kwekubatana, iyo network yakawedzerwa kutsigira terminal yekubatana, kugamuchira kubatana kwebatch (kutumira basa kure, kudhinda kure, batch faira kutumira), kudyidzana faira kutumira, masuo kuTymnet neTelenet veruzhinji data network, X.25 host attachments, masuo kuX.25 data network, Ethernet yakabatana mauto, uye pakupedzisira TCP / IP uye mamwe mayunivhesiti eruzhinji muMichigan vanobatana netiweki. Zvose izvi zvakagadzira nzvimbo yebasa raMerit mubasa reNSFNET kutanga pakati pe1980s.