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Was just reminiscing on a thread...
My first networking IT role was when we were setting up up to 100 3Com 3Station/2E diskless workstations communicating over coax to 3Servers, 1 per floor, all running terminal software back to legacy systems buried under the pyramids. Well, in a dungeon in Sydney, anyway. A mix of 10base-5 and 10base-2 coax.
Then we had to go through and rewire with Cat3 and swap the station's for Windows PCs running 3.1 (ugh) with 3C509 cards.
Then came the internet thingy and inter-country communications... we worked with WellFleet in the 'States to get OSPF working, then switched (😏) to Cisco.
And yes, I had a Sun workstation, upgrading over the years. Loved 'em all. My first was a Sun2 Multibus tower with an naked (no housing) external 100MB (!) SCSI HDD that rattled your teeth when it spun up. (You never forget your first 🩵)
Dang! But it was FUN back then! So much new stuff to learn!
#Old #Computers #Networking #Internet #SunWorkstation #3com #Ethernet
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Was just reminiscing on a thread...
My first networking IT role was when we were setting up up to 100 3Com 3Station/2E diskless workstations communicating over coax to 3Servers, 1 per floor, all running terminal software back to legacy systems buried under the pyramids. Well, in a dungeon in Sydney, anyway. A mix of 10base-5 and 10base-2 coax.
Then we had to go through and rewire with Cat3 and swap the station's for Windows PCs running 3.1 (ugh) with 3C509 cards.
Then came the internet thingy and inter-country communications... we worked with WellFleet in the 'States to get OSPF working, then switched (😏) to Cisco.
And yes, I had a Sun workstation, upgrading over the years. Loved 'em all. My first was a Sun2 Multibus tower with an naked (no housing) external 100MB (!) SCSI HDD that rattled your teeth when it spun up. (You never forget your first 🩵)
Dang! But it was FUN back then! So much new stuff to learn!
#Old #Computers #Networking #Internet #SunWorkstation #3com #Ethernet
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Trying to pick a “computer” icon for some of my blog posts. Pondered options including the first computer I ever used (an Apple II), my childhood favourite (Commodore 64) and an Apple Mac. Also a Sun workstation. But going for the muppet, from a 1967 TV short, where a precursor of Cookie Monster eats and destroys a very rudimentary looking computer. https://youtu.be/7IgF6_jVaj8
#Computers #ComputingHistory #Muppets #60sTV #AppleII #AppleMac #Commodore64 #C64 #SunWorkstation #CookieMonster -
Trying to pick a “computer” icon for some of my blog posts. Pondered options including the first computer I ever used (an Apple II), my childhood favourite (Commodore 64) and an Apple Mac. Also a Sun workstation. But going for the muppet, from a 1967 TV short, where a precursor of Cookie Monster eats and destroys a very rudimentary looking computer. https://youtu.be/7IgF6_jVaj8
#Computers #ComputingHistory #Muppets #60sTV #AppleII #AppleMac #Commodore64 #C64 #SunWorkstation #CookieMonster