The College joins BITNET (a network linking thousands of colleges and universities around the world).
History of BITNET: https://livinginternet.com/u/ui_bitnet.htm
Image below: Example of a BITNET log. “An extract of MAD’s connection log from 1986 shows the frequency of connections worldwide.” Image credits: Vincent Lextrait at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MAD_MMORPG_Log_1986.jpg
