I'm building an RPG setting that involves a plot point around some cinematic network hacking. Someone's connecting to an old 10BASE5 or other type of network that's part of a regional WAN for a megacorp. Since the setting is 2015, it's already long dead and gone by modern standards, but it's still in use for a separate plot point. It'd be a WAN, accessible by satellite offices from a central regional office, using VT-series terminals connecting to an IBM System/370 mainframe running APL. Cutting edge for its day, the kind of network that a graybeard BofH would be running through today because the company doesn't want to spend the money to migrate and the graybeard's the last person who knows how to run it.
Fully internal and private to the company, not available to the public - no dialup connectivity, owned and installed by the company (or its contractors). Buried cable, strung on power lines, some very well-configured packet radio sort of thing, etc.
What kind of network would a company use for this sort of setup? While it doesn't have to be perfectly accurate I'd really like to have the color text be "this place used to be a satellite office for FooCorp, but our guy on the inside confirmed there was no disconnect for the so-and-so node that was installed in '92 and deinstalled once they struck a nationwide deal with Kabletown."
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