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

Damien Gardner Jnr rendrag at rendrag.net
Thu Nov 13 14:39:09 EST 2014


We used a chalk and slate... On a couple of day excursion to sovereign hill
in primary school :-p

Though that said, the school I was at in yr 5/6 did copperplate :)

You know what? Gopher worked REALLY well!  I've said a few times to various
coworkers that we should setup a gopher server rather than messing about
with Wiki's ;)


On 13 November 2014 14:30, Alex Samad - Yieldbroker <
Alex.Samad at yieldbroker.com> wrote:

>  I remember using a slate and chalk at junior school… a long time ago.
> This was in the uk..
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> Used 8088, 8086, 80186, 80386, 80386, DOS, DRDOS, CPM, Lotus 123 J,
> VisiCalc. Dbase ][. Apple ][, ][e, III, Lisa. OS2 (loved it ).
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> REXX anyone remember this
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> Saw my first line printer at work experience … Load and fast …
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> PDP-11 , moria ….. pascal, effiel (yuck), fortran (yuck), cobal (yuck)
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> I’m old, but thankfully not as old as some J
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> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Paul
> Wallace
> *Sent:* Thursday, 13 November 2014 1:55 PM
> *To:* Damien Gardner Jnr; CAS Support
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> *Cc:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] Blast from the past - 1994 connect.com.au brochure
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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
> <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
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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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> Damien Gardner Jnr
> VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust
> rendrag at rendrag.net -  http://www.rendrag.net/
> --
> We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
>  We ran to the sounds of thunder.
> We danced among the lightning bolts,
>  and tore the world asunder
>



-- 

Damien Gardner Jnr
VK2TDG. Dip EE. GradIEAust
rendrag at rendrag.net -  http://www.rendrag.net/
--
We rode on the winds of the rising storm,
 We ran to the sounds of thunder.
We danced among the lightning bolts,
 and tore the world asunder
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