[olug] Cox High Speed Internet

[Trent Melcher]

It really amazes me too how far we have come in that short amount of
time with computers.  Remember when the Internet was (MILNET/ARPANET)..I
was looking at a sendmail config file on an old SPARC 10 I have and saw
the old configuration for the relay mailer,  had DMddn for (Defense Data
Network).  Man that has been some years.  I remember walking shoeboxes
full of punch cards up the the card reader to load your jobs up on the
mainframe (and pray you didn't trip, LOL).  Then along came a Sperry DCP
10, and an IBM 8088 ( I think it had 64K of RAM and a 10Meg hard
drive)...after that I didn't have to worry about tripping anymore,
LOL...

Trent

Trent Melcher
Network/System Administrator
Startouch International LTD.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of
Don Kauffman
Sent: Monday, August 23, 2004 5:18 AM
To: Omaha Linux User Group
Subject: Re: [olug] Cox High Speed Internet


Will et al,

Sure it's silly but it's harmless fun reminiscing! Trying to top each
others memories is half the fun (I sort of wrote programs in focal and
HP-Basic with a teletype, etc). It helps to give some perspective on
where we are now. It wasn't that long ago that 5 1/4 inch floppies were
common and 8 inch discs were passe or sneakernet was the way viruses
were carried.

We've come an amazingly long way in the past forty years. I'm interested
to wee where we go technologically in the next 40.

My $0.02 worth.

Don 
On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 00:02, William Langford wrote:
> Hm.
> 
> I remember an NEC 8086PC around 83 or so.  No OS, just a Basic based
> firmware OS kind of thing.  I was between 4 and 8 playing with the 
> thing.... writing code during the last couple years.
> 
> Since then I've seen alot of even older and more exotic hardware since
> then, but one is always fond of their roots.
> 
> Getting into a sword fight over age is silly. About the only good 
> thing
> for comparisons would be Delphi/Genie/Compuserve and of course
BBS's... 
> and even that is silly.
> 
> -Will
> 
> 
> Cale Lewis wrote:
> 
> >On 1969-12-31 at 18:00:00 [-0600], you wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I remember Win95.  Does that make me cool enough to post on the "I 
> >>am old" thread?
> >>
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I admit, I AM old, or at least feel that way in the mornings, but I 
> >don't
> >have the memories I'm hearing here. That kind of explains why I took
the 
> >direction I did. For every 1 to 3 new boxes I build, whether for
myself or 
> >someone else, I try and rescue or buy a significent represtitive type

> >system. "Significent" doesn't always mean NeXT or SGI, but also
Commadore, 
> >Atari, and a few oddballs I've run across. I like to know the
"History" of 
> >it all so I can better understand the "Why" things were done as they
were. 
> >Most of it is a lot more interesting than a dropout using a 
> >'jump-check'scheme to finance an underhanded buyout and shady sale to
go on 
> >a decades long crime spree.
> >
> >UHmm, as someone here so aptly put it- "Did I say that?"
> >
> >Cale Lewis
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