Re: (fwd) History of Internet in NZ

On 28 Feb 00, at 11:23, Michael Newbery wrote:

Mark Davies wrote at 27/2/00 2:47 PM

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... The initial link was between Waikato and here followed up by a similar link between here and Massey. We ran a slightly modified version of SLIP to deal with the non 8bit clean nature of the lines and they ran at the glorious speed of 4.8K.

And a SHARED 4.8k at that. The theory was that there was sufficient spare capacity on the DSIR network to accomodate the DISR internal traffic and the University use. This proved not to be the case :-)

Ah, what fun though! It was like two cups at the end of a very narrow piece of string that we could just hear the Internet through. Cheers, Ken --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog