[AusNOG] On Old Hands and Young Uns

Robert Hudson hudrob at gmail.com
Sun Feb 15 16:26:52 EST 2015 

Ah, sorry, that's a Tolkien ring. My bad.

:)
On 15/02/2015 4:26 PM, "Robert Hudson" <hudrob at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *James Braunegg **P:*  1300 769 972  |  *M:*  0488 997 207 |  *D:*  (03)
>>>> 9751 7616
>>>>
>>>> *E:*   james.braunegg at micron21.com  |  *ABN:*  12 109 977 666
>>>> *W:*  www.micron21.com/ddos-protection   *T:* @micron21
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *James Braunegg **P:*  1300 769 972  |  *M:*  0488 997 207 |  *D:*  (03)
>>>> 9751 7616
>>>>
>>>> *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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> *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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