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OCR: 7-16 LOCAL NETWORKS AND MAIL Before powerful microcomputer networks became av ailable connecting terminals to host computer provided relatively low- cost computer access FOr e conomic reasons many organiz ations have not yet moved important data and programs from mainframe hosts to micro computer networks It is possible to connect microcomputer to host using terminal emulation software but your microcomputer will behave just like terminal and will receive only display 01 results not data that you can process (Figure -16). If you want to process data you receive from host, instead o1 using terminal emulation software you must use communicat tions software to transfer the data to your computer Figure 7-16 M ainfram e hos I not only. store software pue data files but I run With terminal Mainf ...