[ih] X.25

[Lyndon Nerenberg (VE7TFX/VE6BBM)]

William Westfield writes:

> (also, X.25 host interfaces would have been rare and expensive compared =
> to the dialup async that were already there.)

And in Canada, you likely couldn't buy one.  The telco cabal up
here ran the X.25 network (Datapac).  This was before the provincially
owned telco sell-off happened.  So yes, in Canada, you only rented
PAD access AFAIK.

I did wire a Convergent Technologies MightyFrame to Datapac, for
Alberta Disaster Services.  I just remember AGT (Alberta Gov't
Telephones) installing a dedicated serial circuit, probably 9600
bps.  I can't remember now if it was sync or async.  Part of the
PAD functionality ran under CTIX, but that's all I remember now.
All my X.25/28/29 knowledge boiled off decades ago.

--lyndon