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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I wonder who the other link to SU was
then. Perhaps my memory fail's me. It was over 20 years ago. There
was also a dialup (but dialed up permanently ) connection to
APANA (sydgate) on a 2400 BPS modem which got moved to a 9600
netcomm shortly there after. It initially was connected to SU but
got moved for affiliate reasons to mpx.<br>
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Microplex had nothing so grand as a national network at that
stage. It was the microlink to SU back to a cisco AGS (and later a
cisco 3000) which feed two SCO servers with stallion cards.
Desecrate Netcomm modems were soon replaced with Netcomm rack
modems. This was all going on in the front bedroom of Mark
Fawcett's Ryde house. It was a good year before we moved to
StLeonards when we overfilled capacity to expand the lead in cable
of the house when the DA was full. <br>
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Matt.<br>
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On 29/06/13 4:16 PM, Chris Chaundy wrote:<br>
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<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>
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<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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://connect.com.au" target="_blank">connect.com.au</a>
were the first commercial *IP* providers in
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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 moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://connect.com" target="_blank">connect.com</a>.
(well the TA displayed CD) So to my mind <a
moz-do-not-send="true" 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.
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To my mind it was allays <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://connect.com" target="_blank">connect.com</a>
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Matt.<br>
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