11. As of 2008, these Tymnet Island nodes are still running and doing their jobs. 12. After the migration to Interdata, they started developing Tymnet on the PDP-10. 13. Tymnet technology needed improvements to keep pace with TCP / IP and other Internet protocols.14. However the value of these links continued to decrease, and Tymnet shut down in 2004. 15. Node code software was ported from the Tymnet Engine to a Sparc platform by Bill Soley. 16. Tymshare sold the Tymnet network software to TRW, who created their own private network, TRWNET. 17. In 1984 Tymnet was bought by the McDonnell Douglas Corporation as part of the acquisition of Tymshare. 18. Microdata's systems were integrated into many parts of McDonnell Douglas, but Tymnet never was. 19. Telematics International developed a subset of the Tymnet protocols to run on their ACP / PCP nodes. 20. "Tymnet 's value fell once it was scrunched into MCI, " says Dodd.
