[AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns

Sun Feb 15 16:26:24 EST 2015

One ring to rule them all? :)
On 15/02/2015 3:54 PM, "Serge Burjak" <sburjak at systech.com.au> wrote:

> 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 :)
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 12:45 PM, James Braunegg <
>> james.braunegg at micron21.com> wrote:
>>
>>>  I could only afford Tape on the C64 and VIC20… in fact my C64 is still
>>> at my parents place under the house somewhere.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kindest Regards
>>>
>>>
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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
>>>
>>> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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…. ;)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Kindest Regards
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>> 9751 7616
>>>
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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
>>>
>>>
>>> *Subject:* Re: [AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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!)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 15 February 2015 at 10:47, Mark Currie <MCurrie at laserfast.com.au>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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> 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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>>> --
>>>
>>> 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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