On Mon, 28 Feb 2000, Michael Newbery wrote:

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 :-)

I believe I've got some old stuff relating to early Internet applications at the DSIR (from the P.E.L. at Gracefield - my father was Director of Administration at the DSIR mid/late 80s). I should try to dig it up. Still remember setting my watch by the atomic clocks next to the lunch room... -- Josh Bailey (joshbailey(a)lucent.com) "Josh is... at large" -- F.W. --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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

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

...

... 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