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

[Matt Perkins]

Not sure Corinthian ever connected to aarnet directly. They connected to 
mpx and in fact still connect to Spectrum since the optus sale (1999) . 
Perhaps DaveD can remember what they did before mpx.

Matt.

On 29/06/13 5:45 PM, Chris Chaundy wrote:
> OK - here are some references: 
> http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/OzIHist.html and 
> http://www.rogerclarke.com/II/OzI04.html - the SU link I think you may 
> have been thinking of was Corinthian... Connect.com.au 
> <http://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 
> <http://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 <http://connect.com.au> until 1998 or 1999.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 4:53 PM, Matt Perkins <matt at spectrum.com.au 
> <mailto: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 <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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