[LINK] FW: [AusNOG] [ISOC-AU-mems] Happy Birthday ... AARNet

[Tom Koltai]

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Koltai [mailto:tomk at unwired.com.au] 
Sent: Thursday, 26 March 2009 11:20 PM
To: 'marghanita at ramin.com.au'; 'Geoff Huston'
Cc: 'Mark Prior'; 'Ian Peter'; 'Narelle'; 'link at anu.edu.au'
Subject: RE: [LINK] [AusNOG] [ISOC-AU-mems] Happy Birthday ... AARNet




> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au
> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman1.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of 
> Marghanita da Cruz
> Sent: Thursday, 26 March 2009 5:43 PM
> To: Geoff Huston
> Cc: Mark Prior; Ian Peter; Narelle; link at anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] [AusNOG] [ISOC-AU-mems] Happy Birthday ... AARNet
> 
> 
> Geoff Huston wrote:
> > On 26/03/2009, at 1:14 PM, Mark Prior wrote:
>
> <snip>
> 
> 1987/8 I was configuring DECNET and DEC Workstations at the
> Australian Institute of Health in Canberra.
> 
> Circa 1988/9 in Sydney, I recall setting up a Vax (DEC) file
> server to allow PC and Mac users to share/exchange files. It 
> may have been DECNET/Appletalk and DECNET?? for the MSWindows 
> PCs...and Rainbows.
> 
>  From memory, the network gurus were all for TCP/IP but at
> the time, there wasn't the support for things like 
> filesharing. But I could be wrong and the PCs may have  been 
> runnig TCP/IP.

Phil Karns KA9Q stack arrived circa 1985 I think. - Sorry cant remember
when we ported it to the Apple Lisa amd C lassic - but it was not long
thereafter. What I do remember is that a whole lab (12 Macs) at the NT
Community colledge (now NTU) was then set-up talking to the NTCC Vax
using TCP - and that was before 1987. I know this because by 1987 - I
was setting up the (Fujitsu) Sun - Mac Attorney Generals computer
network - exclusively TCP-IP.


Tom


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