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

[Serge Burjak]

If you ever go past a General Aviation airport, ask a pilot to show
you their 'computer', it's a circular slide rule. They are still in
use and work well for flight planning. They all have them.

On 13 November 2014 12:55, Paul Wallace <paul.wallace at mtgi.com.au> wrote:
> MY BROTHER HAD A SLIDE RULE IN SCHOOL!
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> no kidding!
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> 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
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> 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!
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> I still have a bunch of ISA (and a couple PCI) stallion 8-port EasyIO cards
> in a box ;)
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> On 13 November 2014 13:43, CAS Support <support at cbl.com.au> wrote:
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> 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.
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> FWIW, my first computer was a Microbee ... no network capabilities there
> (and probably no networks to connect to either) :)
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> Regards,
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> Gary
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> Mark Delany wrote:
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> Found this while cleaning out some old files. Wasn't sure about
> inlining images on this list so here are some links.
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> 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
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> Mark.
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> Damien Gardner Jnr
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