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[Matthew Moyle-Croft]

My only memory of CSIRONET was my Dad buying an X.25 network based on  
the CSIRONET nodes (it was commercialised and called something else)  
for the Justice network in SA in the 1980s.   It was cool at the time.

MMC


On 17/03/2009, at 5:13 PM, Geoff Huston wrote:
>
> CSIRONET was an X.25 network that was ostensibly an access network
> using the X.25 PAD protocols to gain access to thge CSIRO time shares
> hosts. There were CSIRONET access nodes (PDP-11's running the X.25
> software with leased line connections) on a number of the large
> campuses. CSIRO used to charge for access to their mainframe systems,
> but did not charge for the network component. So it was possible at
> the time to make edge-to-edge connections across CSIRONET without
> incurring a bill

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