UH Data Comm Timeline

1960	April		UH Statistical & Computing Center opens in the basement of Keller Hall, using an IBM 650, purchased with $50,000 of NSF funds, and $9,000 of Territorial Grant Funds.
			User base: 10 (Dan Arashiro, 1980)
1962			Edwin Mookini1 becomes UHSCC Director
1963	April		IBM 14011 (8K) acquired
	August		UHSCC moves to HIG
			IBM 7040 1,2 (32K) acquired. 7040 & 1401 list price was $1.8 million. UH gets 60% educational discount, paying $720,000 in NSF, State, and UH funds.
			Robert Sparks 1 becomes UHSCC Director Bob Sparks with the IBM 7040
1964			Wesley Peterson (inventor of CRCs)1,2, UHSCC Acting Director.
1965			User base: 300 (Dan Arashiro, 1980)
1967	January		IBM 360/50 1 (512K) acquired
	October		UH Console System, a "home-grown" makeshift timesharing system, is implemented using 6 IBM 2260 CRT terminals.
1968			IBM 7040 retired.
1969			IBM 360/65 1 (512K) replaces 360/50
	November		First RJE 1 , from LCC's IBM 1130 1 to the UHSCC IBM 360
1970			UH/ALOHA System:1,2 Widely considered an important original network medium-sharing implementation upon which later systems, like Ethernet, were based.
			User Base: 2,000 (Dan Arashiro, 1980)
1971			Name changed to "UH Computing Center"
			Walter Yee becomes UHCC director
	April		APL 1 installed: 16 concurrent users
	August		TSO 1 installed: 14 concurrent users
1973	April		HP 2000 installed -- 16 ports
1974	December		IBM 370/158 replaces 360/65
1975	September	15	COMM-PRO is installed on the 3750 Communications Controller to allow ASCII terminals to connect to APL and TSO. It allows access to either system from any of 3 pools of dialup lines. Speeds are 10 cps or 30 cps (~100 or 300 baud). There are a total of 25 dialup lines.
	November	1	UHCC is moved from HIG to the newly renovated Keller Hall 1st floor.
			HP2000 upgraded to 32 port ACCESS
			User Base: 8,000 (Dan Arashiro, 1980)
1977	April	5-6	Leeward CC brings an IMSAI 8080 Microcomputer to the annual UHCC Computer Fair.
	May		UH Gains access to 4 ports on U. of Illinois' PLATO System.
	November		IBM MVS Operating System installed
	December		PLATO access increased to 8 ports
1978	April	9-15	First Gandalf PACX I (128 X 128) Installed.
	July	23	HP2000, IBM370/158, and BCC 500 lines are re-routed to PACX.
	August		TSO -- up to 40 concurrent users.
	December		State Budget and Finance denies budget request for a new timesharing system.
1979	January		PLATO up to 16 ports
	March		Computer Fair is cancelled; all systems are considered too busy to encourage new users.
	July		An article explains that there was no newsletter in June, due to lack of articles.
	December		KauaiCC begins to access UHCC through a 10 port multiplexor (8 async, 2 sync)
1980	January		PLATO debuts as an Official Instructional Program.
			Governor's supplemental budget includes a new 100 port timesharing system.
	February		UH Acquires a Harris 135, with 32 terminal ports, as an interim measure. OS is VULCAN.
	April		UHCC is 20 years old.
			KauaiCC begins to access UHCC through a 10 port multiplexor
			User Base: 16,000 (Dan Arashiro, 1980)
	May		Harris 135 installed.
	July		HP3000 donated to UHCC
1982	May	16	In the public terminal room, 4 Teleray terminals and 2 PLATO terminals are shot with a .22 caliber weapon. The assailant is later caught by police.
	July		Gandalf Engineers spend several days at Keller, looking into "line drops". Boards are sent back to Gandalf HQ in Canada. Special modifications are made to alleviate problems at UH.
			Dual PACX II's (256 X 256) are replaced by a single QUAD PACX IV (1024 X 512).
	August		Timeshare bid awarded; A DEC 2060 with 1 million 36-bit words of MOS memory, PDP-11 front end, PDP-11 sync communications, 1 RP06 176 MB disk, 2 RP07 498MB disks. Running TOPS-20 with FORTRAN-20, COBOL-68/74, BASIC-PLUS-2, CPL-20, and MS (a mail system)
	November		DEC 2060 Up and running.
			Direct terminal connections from GTE: $30 set-up, $8/month.
	December		UHCC Newsletter includes an article on using a microcomputer as a terminal.
1983	April		UH Microcomputer Users Group (UHMUG) meets for the 3rd time on April 8th, 1983, in Gartley 102, 12-1:30 PM
	May		Kermit for DEC-20 and IBM PC implemented: V1.1 [FIELD TEST]
	July		End of production on the HP2000
	December		Harris 135 end of production
1984	January		UHCC Newletter article: "Using electronic mail on the DEC-20"
	July		TSOCOPY provides intermachine file transfers between the DEC-20 and IBM 3081.
	September		The UHCC IBM PC Sale. Dual Diskette/MGA = $1912
	October		Acquisition of a local PLATO machine, UHPLATO, is announced (CDC Cyber 180)
1985	February		UHCC begins offering consulting by electronic mail.
	April		Hawaii Loa College is the first Higher Ed institution in Hawaii to be connected to a national network, EDUCOM's EDUNET, which was dismantled in 1987.
	September		XMODEM on TOPS-20
			KERMIT for HP3000 and Macintosh
			End of keypunch jobs (Sept. 30)
1986	March		PC and Macintosh Labs open on Keller 2nd floor
			2400 Baud dialup
	September		PACX 1000 installed (1000 ports 19,200 bps up from 512 ports at 4800 bps)
			UNIX Arrives: VAX 8650 running Ultrix-32
			Bid complete for mainland BITNET connection -- 14.4k satellite to UCLA
	November		9600 baud Connection to NOSC Kaneohe for USENET.
1987	January	17	First organizational meeting for the Campus Research Network, the first ethernet and TCP/IP in the UH system.
	February		First CRN thicknet segment laid
	March		Helium, uhmanoa (ICS), UHHCCUX and DEC-20 connected to CRN and the Internet, via 9600 baud to NOSC Kaneohe
	May	11	BITNET active: 14.4 kbps satellite to UCLA
	November		First distance learning course over the Hawaii Interactive Television System (HITS)
1988	February		CLIC Lab opens
			Grandfather of SPAM: The "Christmas Greeting" email worm cripples IBM's corporate network, and spreads into BITNET.
	March		Over 50 hosts on CRN
	May		Link from UHCC to MSO
	June		UHPLATO on BITNET as of June -- brings total BITNET Hawaii nodes to 6 (UHCCMVS, UHCCVM, UHCCUX, UHPLATO, UHHEPG, EWC)
	July		planning 56kbps to JPL
	September		VAX/VMS on a Vax 8550 installed to replace DEC-20 and HP3000
			Internet connections include 512kbps to US Mainland, as well as connections to Australia, New Zealand, and Japan
	November		Robert T. Morris releases the "Internet Worm", which infects and crashes 6000 computers across the US. No computer in Hawaii was affected.
			UHCC Newsletter publishes a 7 X 7 matrix of emailing instruction to help users understand how to send email based on source/destination host.
	December		All punch card equipment removed, except for a single inactive keypunch in Keller Lobby
1989	March		MSO interconnects UH System campuses by DECNET
	June	30	End of production for DEC20 and HP3000
	August		Planetary scientists at UH observe the Voyager 2 fly-by of the planet Neptune, using Moore Hall satellite down-link and the Campus Television System (CTS)
	September		Office of Information Technology created: David Lassner, Director
1990	February		9600 baud modems installed
			Keller Workstation Lab opened
	June	28	PACX 1000 replaced with STARMASTER -- total ports: 1920, top speed: 19,200 baud, includes Ethernet interface
	December		The retirement of UHCCUX is postponed, due to multiple problems with networking and communications on the new UHUNIX, a Sun 4/490
1991	May		ftp.hawaii.edu created
	June	26	IBM ES/9000 replaces the 3081
	July	1	UHCCUX retired
	December		UHUNIX upgraded to Sun 4/690 with 4 processors and 256 MB of RAM
			Internet Link is T1 to NASA Ames Research Center
			First network engineer hired
1992	April		First 10BaseT Ethernets: George Hall, HIG, MSO. TCP/IP on microcomputers
	July		Honolulu Community College is the second facility outside Manoa (after UH Hilo) to be connected to the TCP/IP Internet. GTE completes the T1 connection with a temporary microwave link from Alakea St. to HCC.
	October		Gopher.hawaii.edu created
			Wellfleet router crash causes a 9 hour outage on most of UHNet. The cause is a boot disk infected with the Michelangelo Virus.
	November		Mauna Kea Observatories link is up-graded from 14.4 kbps to T1.
	December		Kapiolani CC, Maui CC, Kauai CC are connected to the Internet
1993	August		The World Wide Web, or the widespread publishing of documents in HTML on the Internet, is declared into existence by Marshall Rose and Carl Malamud at Interop in San Francisco
			UH joins the MBONE, a virtual backbone to experiment with IP multicast. ICS grad student Winston Dang writes an RFC and application for multicast IP. (IMM)
1994	January		UHCC, Management Systems Office, Office of Information Technology, and UH Telecom are merged together to form Information Technology Services, under Info Tech Director David Lassner.
	May		Summer Session office begins class registration by touch tone over the telphone. Project is called "Pa'e"
	June		ITS begins offering SLIP and PPP dialup. The original setup is performed by grad student employee Robert Brewer, who later is one of the founders of LavaNet
	July		ITS implements "Access for All" which allows all faculty, staff and students in the University System to acquire accounts on ITS computer systems, primarily to get Internet Access
			The B1 funding system, or "funny money" is eliminated as an accounting of individual and departmental computer use.
1995	January		NSF awards grant to UH, State DOE and East-West Center to study the uses of high-speed networks in education. (HERN)
	June	27-30	INET '95, the annual meeting of the Internet Society, is hosted by ITS at the Sheraton Waikiki.
		30	UHPLATO is retired.
			The T1 link to the Internet is running at 100% capacity. No relief is expected soon.
			All UH system campuses, including MCC learning centers on Lanai and Molokai, are on the Internet.
	July		All ID UHUNIX account holders' email addresses are shortened to "user@hawaii.edu".
1996	March		The Hawaii Internet Exchange (HIX), a grass-roots consortium of Internet Service Providers, connects ISP's and the University to one another to pass intra-Hawaii traffic locally.
	May	1	A new long-distance telephone contract includes an option for "high speed Internet access". The awardee is Sprint.
	June	30	BITNET link is terminated
			Oceanic Cablevision provides "Ethernet over Cable TV" to the homes of HERN-institution staff and students, as a test for their upcoming commercial ISP offering.
	October		Main Internet link is moved from NASA Science Internet to Sprint, at a rate of 6 Mbps. Physical link is 4 parallel T1's
1997	May		T1 to NASA Ames is retired
	December		UH forges a contract with GTE to acquire 45 Mbps (DS3) to the mainland. The contract with Sprint is nullified by nasty performance and continually postponed delivery of more bandwidth.
1998	April		Sprint upgrades UH's Link to 10 Mbps (7 T1s), just in case it will help. It doesn't
	July		UH applies to NSF for a grant to participate in the Internet2 Project
	November		Main Internet Link is moved to GTE DS3
1999	March		A secondary link, using ATM over a DS3, is set up to the Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN)
	May		Direct peering to Abilene is set up for UH to participate in Internet 2
	June	30	Starmaster, the last Gandalf PACX, is retired.
	April		Mauna Kea Observatories and Hilo University Research Park are connected to Internet 2 by a DS3 circuit to the Hawaii GigaPOP in Manoa
	April		Harris Corporation is awarded a contract to upgrade the HITS microwave system to an all-digital OC3 system.
2001	Summer		HITS2, or the digital upgrade of the Hawaii Interactive Television System replaces the aging analog video distance learning system with an IP system which delivers video over Internet multicast. As a result, the intercampus link speeds jump from T1 (1.536 Mbps) to OC3 (155 Mbps) almost overnight. At campuses on Lanai and Molokai, the increase is even greater.
			A direct peering to AARNET in Australia is established, using OC3s acquired by UH.
	Autumn		The UH Manoa Wireless Network becomes operational, offering 100% trouble-free wireless Internet Connectivity.
2002 (?)			Inter-island connectivity is enhanced by the introduction of cable-franchise-based submarine OC3 links.
2004	January		A direct peering to APAN in Japan is established (OC3) just in time for demonstrations by Japanese researchers during the APAN meeting at the East-West Center in Honolulu. APAN was part of the Techs In Paradise 2004 meeting.
	January		AARNET announces the establishment of the SX-Transport project, which will use 9.9 Gigabit per second STM-64 (usually referred to as 10 GBps) links from Sydney to UH and from UH to Seattle.
	October	30	The Flash Flood Of October 2004: At about 8:15 PM Hawaii Standard Time on October 30, 2004, a flash flood, which originated with the overflow of Manoa Stream at Woodlawn Drive in Manoa Valley, swept through the UH Manoa Campus, devastating Hamilton Library and interrupting power to 35 campus buildings. Hamilton Library is closed for months, Keller Hall runs on 2 large generators for several weeks.
2005	Autumn		The North Path of SX-Transport becomes operational, consisting of a trans-pacific 9.9 Gbps path, with a 1 Gbps drop in Honolulu.
2006	October	15	An earthquake, centered northwest of the Big Island, creates havoc across the Island of Hawaii and results in an island-wide power outage on Oahu.
2007	Autumn		UH's Dr. Norman Abramson 1,2 is awarded the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal for his "fundamental work in random multiple access".
	Autumn		The South Path of SX-Transport becomes operational, consisting of a trans-pacific 9.9 Gbps path, with a 1 Gbps drop on the Big Island of Hawaii. By the end of the year, Mauna Kea Observatories will be connected to North America and Australia at 1 Gbps.
2008	January		UHNet connections to the North Path of SX-Transport are increased to 10 GigE, which makes the entire STM-64 usable from UH.
	December 26-27		At about 6PM on Boxing Day, 2008, an island-wide power outage darkens Oahu, lasting into the next afternoon for parts of the island. The new 500 KW Keller generator, along with secondary "split" aircon and auxiliary lighting, prevent the outage from effecting service for UH ITS core services in Keller Hall.
2009	January
2011	November 1		UHNet joins the Western Research Network