[AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns

Sun Feb 15 12:37:32 EST 2015

BNC's??  Lol, you youngens :-p  We had BBC Micros running on Econet, backed
into an Apricot with a very hacked together interface to an external hard
disk.

Speaking of, did anyone else have a hard disk on their C64?  I've never met
anyone else that had one!  (2MB, damned thing was $2k in 1992 - that was a
LOT of saving of busking money!)

On 15 February 2015 at 11:25, James Braunegg <james.braunegg at micron21.com>
wrote:

>  Talking of back in the days high school was so much fun when someone
> removed the BNC terminator and nobody could work out why the network went
> down…. ;)
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> *From:* AusNOG [mailto:ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] *On Behalf Of *Damien
> Gardner Jnr
> *Sent:* Sunday, February 15, 2015 11:16 AM
> *To:* Mark Currie
> *Cc:* ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
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> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns
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> I was quite surprised, while tinkering in the garage yesterday, to find
> the AM7910PC FSK chip from my original hand-built 300-baud modem!  (And the
> associated array of Z80's, 8255's, Z8420's, Z8440's, etc).  Still had the
> jumper soldered to the chip for Bell 103 originator loopback - last time I
> used it, the closest BBS was two calling zones away at STD rates ;)  (Ahh,
> remember the $3 all night call cap back in the 90's? They were great!)
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> On 15 February 2015 at 10:47, Mark Currie <MCurrie at laserfast.com.au>
> wrote:
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> 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.
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> Actually some say Netware was created to run Snipes multiuser.
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> Mark Currie
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> *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
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> 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.
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> On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:26 PM, Alan Maher <alanmaher at gmail.com> wrote:
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> 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 !!!
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> :-D
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> On 13/02/2015 9:08 p.m., Julien Goodwin wrote:
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> On 13/02/15 16:38, Ross Wheeler wrote:
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>  What age counts as a young un?
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>  If you can't remember when the BGP table was less than 50K routes.
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> 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
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> * PDP / VAX [1]
> * Commodore 64
> * Apple II
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> If you never heard of Netware, Banyan Vines or LANtastic
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> 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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> Damien Gardner Jnr
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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
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