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

[Edward Savage]

Definitely!

I remember when I started at my first ISP.  They were still using 10Gb/s
fibre links!

/rose-coloured glasses

On Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 2:24 PM, James Hodgkinson <yaleman at ricetek.net>
wrote:

> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe1a1wHxTyo
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> Seems relevant :)
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> On 13 November 2014 12:55, Paul Wallace <paul.wallace at mtgi.com.au> wrote:
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>> 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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>> --
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>> Regards,
>>
>> 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
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>> http://images.emu.st/1496a427-6acf-11e4-a2a3-00163e12230c/connect-com-au1.jpg
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>> Mark.
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>> --
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>> Damien Gardner Jnr
>> VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust
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>>  We ran to the sounds of thunder.
>> We danced among the lightning bolts,
>>  and tore the world asunder
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