15 Jun
2005
15 Jun
'05
1:08 p.m.
Hi,
Tom Jennings said:
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Stan Barr wrote:
I've come over all nostalgic! I think I'll dig out a 386, find the disks,
sort out my ex-taxi radio and get it going again, assuming there's still
some activity and a node I can reach from here. There are disadvantges
to being down at sea-level surrounded by hills :-(
--
Cheers,
Stan Barr stanb at dial.pipex.com
The future was never like this!
I also ran KA9Q tcp/ip over packet radio on a 386
with MSDOS for quite a
while (and I think I've still got the disks somewhere), does that count
as "online"?
Damn right it does! We (the little garden) ran a whole internet on
40 MHz 386 boxes with KA9Q as router for four member/customers
(four serial cards and four modems, with ethernet to a 3COM
Brouter or in some cases another KA9Q box as uplink). Around
1992. Real TCP/IP and minimal routing, plus local (keyboard/CRT)
support for client and servers. Doesn't get more real than that!