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

[Paul Wallace]

MY BROTHER HAD A SLIDE RULE IN SCHOOL!

no kidding!




From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Damien Gardner Jnr
Sent: Thursday, 13 November 2014 12:50 PM
To: CAS Support
Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Blast from the past - 1994 connect.com.au brochure

My Highschool got computers in year 8 - was a campus wide network of microbee's, with an Apricot as the fileserver!  Ahhhh, the high technology! ;)

I still have a bunch of ISA (and a couple PCI) stallion 8-port EasyIO cards in a box ;)

On 13 November 2014 13:43, CAS Support <support at cbl.com.au<mailto: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) :)

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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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