On Sunday 04 June 2006 23:38, Don Stokes wrote:
so, one of the 5 of these: http://www.knossos.net.nz/don/wn1.html
No, not one of those. The MGS is about half the size of the AGS, takes four cards including the CPU and NVR cards, so you could get two line cards in for a maximum of 8 ports. The AGS has nine slots, giving you 28 holes if you held your mouth right. (Note that VUW ordered 5 MGSes, but three arrived as AGSes.)
Just to clarify here: The 5 VUW boxes were for Victoria's internal network and predated Kawaihiko's use of ciscos.
The PACCOM link went in late '89, IIRC, but it was a wee while before solid non-experimental comms made it to VUW
Are you saying our PC based 4.8K/9.6K links via the DSIR's terminal network were experimental or not solid or are you refering to the earlier attempts to do something with DECnet. :-) cheers mark