[AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns

Sun Feb 15 15:54:13 EST 2015

I recall my first Token Ring Install...

On 15 February 2015 at 14:32, Peter Betyounan <peter at serversaustralia.com.au
> wrote:

> Amiga 500 was my choice on machine back then :)
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> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 12:45 PM, James Braunegg <
> james.braunegg at micron21.com> wrote:
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>>  I could only afford Tape on the C64 and VIC20… in fact my C64 is still
>> at my parents place under the house somewhere.
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>> Kindest Regards
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>> *James Braunegg **P:*  1300 769 972  |  *M:*  0488 997 207 |  *D:*  (03)
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>> *From:* Damien Gardner Jnr [mailto:rendrag at rendrag.net]
>> *Sent:* Sunday, February 15, 2015 12:38 PM
>> *To:* James Braunegg
>> *Cc:* Mark Currie; ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
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>> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns
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>> 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.
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>> 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!)
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>> On 15 February 2015 at 11:25, James Braunegg <james.braunegg at micron21.com>
>> wrote:
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>> 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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>> Kindest Regards
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>> *James Braunegg **P:*  1300 769 972  |  *M:*  0488 997 207 |  *D:*  (03)
>> 9751 7616
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>> *E:*   james.braunegg at micron21.com  |  *ABN:*  12 109 977 666
>> *W:*  www.melbournedarkfibre.com   *T:* @micron21
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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 !!!
>>
>> :-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?
>>
>>  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
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>> * PDP / VAX [1]
>> * Commodore 64
>> * Apple II
>>
>> 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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>> --
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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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>> 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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