After examining California's networking environment, Dean found that his Price's List would unlikely be replicated here in a short period of time.
He didn't have permission to access Stanford's servers on the NSF network, and even if he could secretly port Price's List over, its capacity limitations doomed it to insignificance.
So, although reluctantly, Dean had no choice but to give up on the expansion plans for Price's List in California. Given America's current networking environment, it was still confined to Ohio.
Dean wasn't sure when dawn would come, and therefore he didn't plan to wait idly at Stanford. Since the network was currently a dead end, it was time to pivot.
As Silicon Valley's calling card, computer technology had evolved for over twenty years. The previously huge and cumbersome mainframe computers had now been miniaturized.