[AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns

[Mark Currie]

I remember hooking up 10+ machines in the workshop on Netware 2 and running nsnipes (the first realtime multiuser network game – Novell Snipes) to load test the equipment.

Actually some say Netware was created to run Snipes multiuser.

Mark Currie

From: AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Joshua D'Alton
Sent: Friday, 13 February 2015 8:45 PM
To: Alan Maher
Cc: AusNOG at lists.ausnog.net
Subject: Re: [AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns

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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