That' would have been the old Cisco AGS switch that I found in the network storeroom back when I worked at University of Waikato.

It still worked at the time when I powered it up, CMOS battery (which was an AA alkaline battery was stuffed).

Got some photos somewhere.

Nice piece of history.

On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 16:57, Don Stokes <don@nz.net> wrote:

Since nobody else seems to have noticed ...

... today is the 30th anniversary of the Internet reaching NZ. On 16 April 1989, John Houlker plugged in the PACCOM link connecting the University of Waikato, via an analogue circuit on the ANZCAN cable, to the University of Hawaii and thence to the Internet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98xdUWja_aM

Also of note was that on 1 April 1989, the Telecommunications Amendment Act 1988 came into force, formally ending the century-old NZPO/Telecom regulated telecommunications monopoly.�� (The de-facto monopoly took a bit longer to dismantle.)

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Don Stokes, don@nz.net, 021 796 072

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