Recent content by mr_neutron

Then again, back then we put a man on the moon. :)

You know this may sound amazing to some people but do you have any idea of the state of telephone switching equipment was like back then? T1's were implemented on a system designed for voice - 6K Hz per circuit. It took some pretty good Bell Labs voodoo to get you your 1.544 Mbps. That's why it...

This is why you don't casually mention things like this around me. I've been in IT for 45 years. I've known interesting people. I've seen a lot. So...I recently changed the oil in my 2012 FJ Cruiser with HPL 0w-40 and....

Remember that you were dealing with Ma Bell back then.

I think that was pricing for corporate customers. I worked in the corporate arena. This was pre-Internet.

Now that I think about it the old Ethernet had BNC connectors back when it was a true bus. Vampire connectors, oh yeah.

Adtran - oh that brings back memories. They were pretty reliable, which I appreciated.

Back then it was all SNA and Decnet (Dreknet, hey! I worked in an IBM shop) Then along came this TCP/IP thing and changed everything forever.

It was actually a pretty big deal when T1's went below $1K/mo. I'm pretty sure it was in the 80's.

Interesting. Token-ring with BNC connectors? I don't think so, not that I remember. I worked for a company in the mid-90's that ran token-ring and it was all RJ45 at that time. Token-ring was competing with (and losing to) ethernet. From 1998 to a little after 2000 I was the maintainer of the...

OS/2 was by no stretch of the imagination a *NIX. It was a next generation MS-DOS hobbled by the need to maintain compatibility with MS-DOS. It was good. I liked it. But it wasn't a *NIX. I soon abandoned it for Slackware.

My first computer was an IBM 370/168 running VM/370. I was the night shift computer operator at Security Pacific National Bank in LA working 6 storeys underground and by day I was working on my Computer Science degree at Cal Poly Pomona. This was back before the IBM PC existed. Good times.