<div dir="ltr">How about ye olde Friday afternoon Quake session enabler, aka 10Base2, where particular coax cables would only work between specific identical NICs in identical PCs, and where a t junction terminator would actually allow a segment only 1M long to work.<div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Alan Maher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:alanmaher@gmail.com" target="_blank">alanmaher@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Commodore 64, Geoworks, 300 bps modem (homemade) & dialling into a bulletin<br>
board.................then thinking - is that all there is?<br>
After that we lived in a shoebox at the bottom of the garden and ate a lump of coal<br>
before walking 20 miles to school.<br>
Luxury !!!<br>
<br>
:-D<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
On 13/02/2015 9:08 p.m., Julien Goodwin wrote:<br>
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On 13/02/15 16:38, Ross Wheeler wrote:<br>
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What age counts as a young un?<br>
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If you can't remember when the BGP table was less than 50K routes.<br>
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I think you're in trouble if you say "that's me" to any of these!<br>
<br>
If you don't know what SLIRP was.<br>
If you don't remember when you could fit netscape on a floppy.<br>
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I have an *official* copy of 1.X Netscape (I think 1.1 or 1.2) for Win<br>
3.X, and that's two floppies.<br>
<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
If you don't remember webcrawler or Trumpet Winsock.<br>
If you don't know what Fidonet was<br>
If you have no idea what an AM7910 was or would be used for.<br>
If you never owned at least one of:<br>
* Microbee<br>
* Trash80<br>
* SCAMP<br>
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* PDP / VAX [1]<br>
* Commodore 64<br>
* Apple II<br>
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If you never heard of Netware, Banyan Vines or LANtastic<br>
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or "Phone Net" AppleTalk (Anyone still have ethertalk routers running?)<br>
<br>
And the "oh noes! Dual stack" people make you laugh because you remember<br>
running all the above in one network, at the same time.<br>
<br>
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If you don't recognise a BNC-T and/or a BNC 50R terminator<br>
If you can't identify g=c800:5<br>
If you don't know what an NEC-V20 was<br>
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1: Nothing sucks like a VAX<br>
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