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We were so poor that we actually had to carry all the punch cards
from the data entry girls all the way<br>
across the room. And that was before we got to eat our lump of coal.<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 13/02/2015 10:44 p.m., Joshua
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<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.
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Alan
Maher <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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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>
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:-D
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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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