| Acronym | Meaning |
| ACOS | Advanced Coronal Observing System |
| NEC | Nippon Machines |
| AARADCOM | US Army Armanents R&D Command |
| ARPANET | Advanced Research Projects Agency Network |
| BPA | Bonneville Power Administration |
| CASE | Computer Aided Software Engineering |
| STIP | Study Of Traveling Interplanetary Phenomena |
| ARIN | Aerospace Resource Information Network |
| BPS | Baud-per-second |
| EEMOC | European EMOC |