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

[Serge Burjak]

If you had a serial port, you could run SLIP.... I wrote the script
for the Linux kernel to interface with ibm.net ..

On 13 November 2014 12:47, Robert Hudson <hudrob at gmail.com> wrote:
> The later Microbees (we had a couple of 128k models at my primary school in
> the mid to late 80s) were network-able as I understand it.  Not that you
> could do much with them once you did network them, though you could share a
> tape drive to load software onto them. :)
>
> Ah, the days of BLOAD...
>
> On 13 November 2014 13:43, CAS Support <support at cbl.com.au> wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> FWIW, my first computer was a Microbee ... no network capabilities there
>> (and probably no networks to connect to either) :)
>>
>> --
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Gary
>>
>>
>>
>> Mark Delany wrote:
>>>
>>> Found this while cleaning out some old files. Wasn't sure about
>>> inlining images on this list so here are some links.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://images.emu.st/1496a427-6acf-11e4-a2a3-00163e12230c/connect-com-au0.jpg
>>>
>>> http://images.emu.st/1496a427-6acf-11e4-a2a3-00163e12230c/connect-com-au1.jpg
>>>
>>>
>>> Mark.
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