[AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns

[Alex Samad - Yieldbroker]

I missed punch cards by a few years.
Gravity feed Line printers
Tty terminals

Apple ][, ][e, III, Lisa
6502
8086, 80186, 80286, 80386..
VAX
PDP-11
CPM, DRDos… OS/2

True floppy disk, that you could double side

Moria, Lesure suit larry, Zork.

BBoards, WIAS, Gopher.

Not so old, but has any held a key signing for list members ?

A


From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Alan Maher
Sent: Friday, 13 February 2015 10:01 PM
To: Joshua D'Alton
Cc: AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns

We were so poor that we actually had to carry all the punch cards from the data entry girls all the way
across the room. And that was before we got to eat our lump of coal.
On 13/02/2015 10:44 p.m., Joshua D'Alton wrote:
How about ye olde Friday afternoon Quake session enabler,  aka 10Base2, where particular coax cables would only work between specific identical NICs in identical PCs, and where a t junction terminator would actually allow a segment only 1M long to work.



On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Alan Maher <alanmaher at gmail.com<mailto:alanmaher at gmail.com>> wrote:
Commodore 64, Geoworks, 300 bps modem (homemade) & dialling into a bulletin
board.................then thinking -    is that all there is?
After that we lived in a shoebox at the bottom of the garden and ate a lump of coal
before walking 20 miles to school.
Luxury !!!

:-D

On 13/02/2015 9:08 p.m., Julien Goodwin wrote:
On 13/02/15 16:38, Ross Wheeler wrote:
What age counts as a young un?
If you can't remember when the BGP table was less than 50K routes.
I think you're in trouble if you say "that's me" to any of these!

If you don't know what SLIRP was.
If you don't remember when you could fit netscape on a floppy.
I have an *official* copy of 1.X Netscape (I think 1.1 or 1.2) for Win
3.X, and that's two floppies.
If you don't remember webcrawler or Trumpet Winsock.
If you don't know what Fidonet was
If you have no idea what an AM7910 was or would be used for.
If you never owned at least one of:
  *  Microbee
  *  Trash80
  *  SCAMP
* PDP / VAX [1]
* Commodore 64
* Apple II
If you never heard of Netware, Banyan Vines or LANtastic
or "Phone Net" AppleTalk (Anyone still have ethertalk routers running?)

And the "oh noes! Dual stack" people make you laugh because you remember
running all the above in one network, at the same time.
If you don't recognise a BNC-T and/or a BNC 50R terminator
If you can't identify  g=c800:5
If you don't know what an NEC-V20 was
1: Nothing sucks like a VAX
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