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

[Chris Chaundy]

OK - here are some references: http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/OzIHist.htmland
http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/OzI04.html - the SU link I think you may have
been thinking of was Corinthian...  Connect.com.au's nodes in Melbourne,
Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth were co-located with significant
customers.  This continued until AAPT invested in connect.com.au at which
point we migrated everything over to Cisco 7500's at the AAPT POPs where we
connected into their ATM network using HSSI (45Mbps?) - AAPT didn't
completely acquire connect.com.au until 1998 or 1999.



On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Matt Perkins <matt at spectrum.com.au> wrote:

>  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>wrote:
>
>>  On 28/06/13 8:41 PM, Chris Chaundy wrote:
>>
>>
>> There is some 'discussion' as to whether Microplex or connect.com.auwere 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.
>> (well the TA displayed CD)  So to my mind 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 by a nose.
>>
>> Matt.
>>
>>
>>
>>
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