[AusNOG] Blast from the past - 1994 connect.com.au brochure

[Alexander Neilson]

I didn't start till Windows for Workgroups 3.11

That was my first OS ever. 

Regards

Alexander

Alexander Neilson
Neilson Productions Ltd
Alexander at Neilson.net.nz
021 329 681

> On 13/11/2014, at 2:45 pm, Paul Wallace <paul.wallace at mtgi.com.au> wrote:
> 
> ah .... Windows 3.1 "for Networks"
> 
> the dawn of distributed network filing
> 
> (otherwise called chaos)
> 
> -P
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Serge Burjak
> Sent: Thursday, 13 November 2014 11:43 AM
> To: Nathan Brookfield
> Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Blast from the past - 1994 connect.com.au brochure
> 
> Had to buy Trumpet Winsock for Windows 3.1 to enable internet access, was it this era or am I ageing myself further..
> 
>> On 13 November 2014 11:36, Nathan Brookfield <Nathan.Brookfield at simtronic.com.au> wrote:
>> Or freaking call waiting before Telstra introduced the desktop app for it!!!
>> 
>> Kindest Regards,
>> Nathan Brookfield
>> 
>> Chief Executive Officer
>> Simtronic Technologies Pty Ltd
>> 
>> Web: http://simtronic.com.au
>> Phone: 1300 592 330
>> Fax: (02) 4749 4950
>> 
>> On 13 Nov 2014, at 12:32, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker 
>> <Alex.Samad at yieldbroker.com> wrote:
>> 
>> And when your mum picked up the phone to make a call.... arrrgg :(
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> 
>> From: Ross Wheeler [mailto:ausnog at rossw.net]
>> 
>> Sent: Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:25 PM
>> 
>> To: Alex Samad - Yieldbroker
>> 
>> Cc: Damien Gardner Jnr; Mark Delany; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
>> 
>> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Blast from the past - 1994 connect.com.au 
>> brochure
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Luxury
>> 
>> 
>> Waiting for the Linux kernel source to replicate around BBS’s so
>> 
>> there was one close enough to grab cheaply or STD charges or even IDD
>> 
>> charges..
>> 
>> 
>> Ahh, the "sysop special" pricing Bill Bolton (Netcomm) offered on the 
>> original
>> 
>> Trailblazer PEP (and later V32.bis) modems to upgrade from the old 1234SA.
>> 
>> Being co-ord for several nets meant very hefty STD calls twice a day, 
>> the
>> 
>> 'blazers reduced call costs significantly!
>> 
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