<div dir="ltr"><div>Well I actually connected Connect at UM and I was still working at the Uni for another year or more before I jumped ship, and I don't recall them ever having an SU link (I think this is where some confusion came from). The national network was all ISDN Microlink-based initially and the Sydney node was in Cisco, but it was UUCP relays initially until they got the OK to route IP over 'dedicated' connections (ISDN and 'permanent' dialup).<br>
<br></div><div>All of this was well before I joined Connect in early 1994 and around the time that the Interconnect (domestic dialup) product was launched (I'm often incorrectly spoken of as a founder - there were three active founders and I was employee number 2).<br>
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There is some 'discussion' as to whether Microplex or <a href="http://connect.com.au" target="_blank">connect.com.au</a>
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As I remember it when I connected Microplex Cisco AGS via a Telecom
Microlink to a T/A at 64k to the netblazer at .SU Microplex
connected to port 2. Port 1 was already allocated and connected to
<a href="http://connect.com" target="_blank">connect.com</a>. (well the TA displayed CD) So to my mind <a href="http://connect.com" target="_blank">connect.com</a>
was first we were second. However we only provided shell accounts
for the first few weeks before i wrote the shell scripts on the SCO
box that started slip sessions allocated IP's etc. So im a bit
unsure who sold the commercial IP accounts first. It was within
weeks of AARNET providing connections to the first as they called
them then "Affiliates" <br>
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Chris how long after you connected did you start selling. <br>
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To my mind it was allays <a href="http://connect.com" target="_blank">connect.com</a> by a nose.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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