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[QUOTE=FTE Ken]
I remember those as well. I had a ton of DEC explosure back then... my dad worked for them. Ah.... I see you're up to your Ul-trix again! AIX!
I foundly remember the wonderment I felt when I first sat at the console of a VAX cluster. Internet? I don't recall us calling it that then. We were just dialing in to ftp, read the Star Trek (or whatever) usenet groups and later gopher. The biggest use back then for us was to connect, telnet to a server in another area code (where-ever the BBS was we wanted to connect to), search for a dial-up port and dial out to a BBS. By-passed the long-distance phone charges completely and legally. Not that I ever, er, uhm.... did any demon dialing with MCI (yeah, right.........).
Ahh... the lovely days of MCI ...
BBS's were lots of fun back when you actually had to dial into them.
But Arpanet was WAY more interesting, back before 1983...
And VAX clusters... NFS in a way, plus a whole lot more. Damn, where'd I put my VAXstation... I had that thing clustered to a VAX simulator, and it actually worked... I don't think it'll find quorum on it's own ...
Originally Posted by xlt4me
I remember those as well. I had a ton of DEC explosure back then... my dad worked for them. Ah.... I see you're up to your Ul-trix again! AIX!
I foundly remember the wonderment I felt when I first sat at the console of a VAX cluster. Internet? I don't recall us calling it that then. We were just dialing in to ftp, read the Star Trek (or whatever) usenet groups and later gopher. The biggest use back then for us was to connect, telnet to a server in another area code (where-ever the BBS was we wanted to connect to), search for a dial-up port and dial out to a BBS. By-passed the long-distance phone charges completely and legally. Not that I ever, er, uhm.... did any demon dialing with MCI (yeah, right.........).
BBS's were lots of fun back when you actually had to dial into them.
But Arpanet was WAY more interesting, back before 1983...
And VAX clusters... NFS in a way, plus a whole lot more. Damn, where'd I put my VAXstation... I had that thing clustered to a VAX simulator, and it actually worked... I don't think it'll find quorum on it's own ...
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