From: Geoff Huston
Just a quick note from the other side of the Tasman - the earliest efforts appeared to be at the Victoria University, Wellington, where the Computer Science Department operated a modem-based trans-Tasman messaging service through the eighties - I'm not sure whether the link used the uunet protocols or the acsnet protocols, but I'm not sure thats all that relevant. It linked up to a comparable Computer Science messaging network in Australia.
It was ACSnet to melbourne as well as uucp to Calgary and to uunet (actually it was initially seismo back in the pre uunet days). There was even a short period when email between here and canterbury went via calgary.
The first link was, as I recall, a 14.4Kbps analog modem connection, installed in late 88 (or thereabouts) with NASA and NZ funding.
And the first NZ IP link out of Waikato was a slip link between here and there running over the DSIR's internal serial network with an 8086 based PCrouter at each end. That link ran at 9.6K though the DSIR constrained it to only 4.8K. That was quickly followed by a similar link from here to Massey. cheers mark --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog