Jamie Baddeley
On Sun, 2006-06-04 at 11:41 +0800, Arron Scott (ascott) wrote:
anymore, which was a PC chassis, before that was replaced by the Cisco MGS which ran the internet from when it was upgraded to the 64k Synchronous Serial link.
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.) IIRC, the early incarnations of the PACCOM Internet link had a Proteon router on the end of it; the University of Waikato bought the MGS later. Checking my archives, the VUW CSC router (the machine pictured in the abovementioned link) was configured sometime prior to 6 Mar '89, while the Kawaihiko (Universities' network) links went in on 14 Jun '90. The VUW-Waikato link went to 48 kbps on 8 Jul '91; presumably around the same time the rest of Kawaihiko reached its final (pre-Tuianet) configuration (48k Waikato-Auckland, 48k Waikato-VUW, 48k Waikato-Canterbury, 48k VUW-Massey, 9k6 VUW-Canterbury, 9k6 Canterbury-Otago & 9k6(?) Canterbury-Lincoln). The PACCOM link went in late '89, IIRC, but it was a wee while before solid non-experimental comms made it to VUW
I'm guessing that once we work out if the modem in question was a part of our history, who ever works it out will update this: http://www.wlug.org.nz/NewZealandInternetHistory
The NASA property stickers are a dead giveaway. The PACCOM links were sponsored by NASA, and they did a lot of the early config. Hence the aforementioned Proteon. Oh, and I have a functional ASR-33 in my office. -- don