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The expected conflicts with data owners over making the databases available to the public arose, but in the end both Lockheed and SDC succeeded in going commercial. Royalties were paid to the agencies that owned the databases’ content. But the new information retrieval services costs of systems hardware, software, data management techniques, and database content were essentially paid for by government agencies. Lockheed put Dialog online as a commercial service in 1971. It offered three databases: the NASA RECON database, ERIC, and Nuclear Science Abstracts.
The company’s engineers developed proprietary network hardware and software that enabled the CompuServ network to outperform PSNs and AT&T’s own networks, using standard telephone lines as opposed to the much more expensive “conditioned” lines normally used for data communications. ) This rankled AT&T managers who, as future events would demonstrate, did not like the idea of CompuServ besting their technology. In addition to saving money by leasing regular telephone lines, CompuServ was able to negotiate a favorable bulk rate because it used so many thousands of hours per month.
Even some individuals would find the information products attractive. It is likely that each contractor had thoughts of offering the databases to the public from the beginning. The expected conflicts with data owners over making the databases available to the public arose, but in the end both Lockheed and SDC succeeded in going commercial. Royalties were paid to the agencies that owned the databases’ content. But the new information retrieval services costs of systems hardware, software, data management techniques, and database content were essentially paid for by government agencies.