<div dir="ltr">We used a chalk and slate... On a couple of day excursion to sovereign hill in primary school :-p<div><br></div><div>Though that said, the school I was at in yr 5/6 did copperplate :)</div><div><br></div><div>You know what? Gopher worked REALLY well!  I've said a few times to various coworkers that we should setup a gopher server rather than messing about with Wiki's ;)</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 November 2014 14:30, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com" target="_blank">Alex.Samad@yieldbroker.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I remember using a slate and chalk at junior school… a long time ago. This was in the uk..<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Used 8088, 8086, 80186, 80386, 80386, DOS, DRDOS, CPM, Lotus 123
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Wingdings;color:#1f497d">J</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">, VisiCalc. Dbase ][. Apple ][, ][e, III, Lisa. OS2 (loved it ).<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">REXX anyone remember this<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Saw my first line printer at work experience … Load and fast …<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">PDP-11 , moria ….. pascal, effiel (yuck), fortran (yuck), cobal (yuck)<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Prolog omg…<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">Gopher, WAIS..<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">I’m old, but thankfully not as old as some
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<b>On Behalf Of </b>Paul Wallace<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 13 November 2014 1:55 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Damien Gardner Jnr; CAS Support</span></p><div><div class="h5"><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Blast from the past - 1994 <a href="http://connect.com.au" target="_blank">connect.com.au</a> brochure<u></u><u></u></div></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">MY BROTHER HAD A SLIDE RULE IN SCHOOL!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d">no kidding!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> AusNOG [<a href="mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Damien Gardner Jnr<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:50 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> CAS Support<br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:ausnog@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">ausnog@lists.ausnog.net</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] Blast from the past - 1994 <a href="http://connect.com.au" target="_blank">connect.com.au</a> brochure<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">My Highschool got computers in year 8 - was a campus wide network of microbee's, with an Apricot as the fileserver!  Ahhhh, the high technology! ;)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I still have a bunch of ISA (and a couple PCI) stallion 8-port EasyIO cards in a box ;)<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 13 November 2014 13:43, CAS Support <<a href="mailto:support@cbl.com.au" target="_blank">support@cbl.com.au</a>> wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks for prompting the trip down memory lane :). In 1994 I like to think I was an 'innovative cobbler'. I'd been running a dialup BBS (Maximus/OS2) for some years and toying with linux since beta. What I ended up with was a system where
 people would dial in to the BBS with Trumpet Winsock and the modem script would open a terminal session on the linux box which would fire up Slirp and give them a SLIP link. We started with a G-Tek 4 port serial card and ended up with a 64 port external serial
 something or other before we switched to ISDN in the late 90's.<br>
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FWIW, my first computer was a Microbee ... no network capabilities there (and probably no networks to connect to either) :)<span style="color:#888888"><br>
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<span>Regards,</span><br>
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<span>Gary</span></span><u></u><u></u></p>
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Mark Delany wrote:<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Found this while cleaning out some old files. Wasn't sure about<br>
inlining images on this list so here are some links.<br>
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Mark.<br>
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VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust<br>
<a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net" target="_blank">rendrag@rendrag.net</a> -  <a href="http://www.rendrag.net/" target="_blank">http://www.rendrag.net/</a><u><br>
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We rode on the winds of the rising storm,<br>
 We ran to the sounds of thunder.<br>
We danced among the lightning bolts,<br>
 and tore the world asunder<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p>Damien Gardner Jnr<br>VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust<br><a href="mailto:rendrag@rendrag.net" target="_blank">rendrag@rendrag.net</a> -  <span><a href="http://www.rendrag.net/" target="_blank">http://www.rendrag.net/</a><u><br></u></span>--<br>We rode on the winds of the rising storm,<br> We ran to the sounds of thunder.<br>We danced among the lightning bolts,<br> and tore the world asunder</p></div></div>
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