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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-AU link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I remember hooking up 10+ machines in the workshop on Netware 2 and running nsnipes (the first realtime multiuser network game – Novell Snipes) to load test the equipment. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Actually some say Netware was created to run Snipes multiuser.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Mark Currie<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><a name="_MailEndCompose"><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></a></p><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 [mailto:ausnog-bounces@lists.ausnog.net] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Joshua D'Alton<br><b>Sent:</b> Friday, 13 February 2015 8:45 PM<br><b>To:</b> Alan Maher<br><b>Cc:</b> AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Alan Maher <<a href="mailto:alanmaher@gmail.com" target="_blank">alanmaher@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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<o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal><br>On 13/02/2015 9:08 p.m., Julien Goodwin wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>On 13/02/15 16:38, Ross Wheeler wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0cm'><p class=MsoNormal>What age counts as a young un?<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal>If you can't remember when the BGP table was less than 50K routes.<o:p></o:p></p></blockquote><p class=MsoNormal>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>* PDP / VAX [1]<br>* Commodore 64<br>* Apple II<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>If you never heard of Netware, Banyan Vines or LANtastic<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>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.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>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<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>1: Nothing sucks like a VAX<br>_______________________________________________<br>AusNOG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog" target="_blank">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>_______________________________________________<br>AusNOG mailing list<br><a href="mailto:AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net" target="_blank">AusNOG@lists.ausnog.net</a><br><a href="http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog" target="_blank">http://lists.ausnog.net/mailman/listinfo/ausnog</a><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></body></html>