[AusNOG] Is anyone else sick of Tony abbot claiming Malcolm Turbull invented the internet.

[Matt Perkins]

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.

  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.

Matt.


On 29/06/13 4:16 PM, Chris Chaundy wrote:
> 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).
>
> 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).
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 1:54 PM, Matt Perkins <matt at spectrum.com.au 
> <mailto:matt at spectrum.com.au>> wrote:
>
>     On 28/06/13 8:41 PM, Chris Chaundy wrote:
>>
>>     There is some 'discussion' as to whether Microplex or
>>     connect.com.au <http://connect.com.au> were the first commercial
>>     *IP* providers in Australia (circa 1992/1993) - as distinct from
>>     email
>     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 connect.com <http://connect.com>. (well the TA
>     displayed CD)  So to my mind connect.com <http://connect.com> 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"
>
>     Chris how long after you connected did you start selling.
>
>     To my mind it was allays connect.com <http://connect.com> by a nose.
>
>     Matt.
>
>
>
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