There are now more than 1.4 million passwords in use by subscribers to online services in North America. According to the Digital Information Group of Stanford, CT., CompuServe leads the industry with nearly 260,000 passwords. Indicative of their popularity, the following providers of online services were reported to have issued the following numbers of passwords to subscribers: Dow Jones, 235,000; Mead Data, 180,000; Dialog, 70,000; and I.P. Sharp, 37,000.
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Library Systems Newsletter [March 1986]
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| Publication Year: | 1986 |
| Type of Material: | Article |
| Language | English |
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Library Systems Newsletter |
| Publication Info: | Volume 6 Number 03 |
| Issue: | March 1986 |
| Page(s): | 19 |
| Publisher: | American Library Association |
| Place of Publication: | Chicago, IL |
| Notes: | Howard S. White, Editor-in-Chief; Richard W. Boss, Contributing Editor |
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Online searching |
| ISSN: | 0277-0288 |
| Record Number: | 7310 |
| Last Update: | 2024-11-23 21:34:37 |
| Date Created: | 0000-00-00 00:00:00 |
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