Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Aloha Net
     
         (From the Hawaiian greeting) One of the first
        functioning {networks} in the USA, conceived and implimented
        at the {University of Hawaii} campus at Manoa.  Its purpose
        was to link the University {mainframe} computer to client
        computers located on outer islands at University campuses.
        Put in place in the early 1970s, it was dubed the Aloha Net.
        {Key punch} cards were fed through a reader, and sent over the
        commercial phone lines.
     
        (1995-12-10)