Re: Internet in NZ: 30 years today

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 <[email protected]> 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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