Re: History of Internet in New Zealand to current date (Off Topic, but what the hell..)

On Wed, 28 Mar 2001, Mark Davies wrote:

From: "fwetyson" Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 22:58:13 +1200

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Would be interested in the dates regarding VUW and Massey

1989 - about 6 months after the international link went in to Waikato having got fed up waiting for the computer centers to get something working.

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Did these take place before Kawahiko and Tuia got on line via NZGate?

The first uucp link out of Massey was to Auckland using the leased voice circuit that Massey owned to reduce the cost of toll calls. We got access to the circuit in the evenings. I think we also, briefly, had a link to Victoria, over a similar circuit. It took me months to organise because of a senior manager who said "There will never be computers connected to MY telephone exchange." Our victory over him was short lived because he imposed daytime toll rate charges on us and effectively killed the project. We made the DSIR link a few months later. The Massey `node' was a 68000 based Unix(tm) Altos. I'm afraid I don't remember the dates any more and am not sure how I'd find out but I guess it was around 1986/7. I left Massey in 1988. And of course, well before all of that there was kiwinet. But that didn't really have anything to do with the Internet. Tony ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony McGregor Mail: T.McGregor(a)cs.waikato.ac.nz Department of Computer Science Phone: +64 7 838 4651 Waikato University Fax: +64 7 858 5095 Private Bag 3105 Home: +64 7 825 5040 mobile: (021)313004 Hamilton, New Zealand www: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~tonym ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog