An old friend and colleague of mine from Ensign Bickford sent me an email this morning. He still works for what's left of the company (Ensign Bickford Aerospace & Defense ... Dyno Nobel owns the rest now.)
Any way, the email was titled "end of an era" and had this picture attached.
Those are a pair of Shiva LanRover/8Es he had just retired from service. The LanRover was an early dialup remote access box, forerunner of the modern VPN. The /8E designation indicates a LANrover with 8 serial ports and Ethernet (vs. Token Ring).
I installed those LANrovers. In 1993. Do the math.
I have been doing this for a long, long time.
Any way, the email was titled "end of an era" and had this picture attached.
Those are a pair of Shiva LanRover/8Es he had just retired from service. The LanRover was an early dialup remote access box, forerunner of the modern VPN. The /8E designation indicates a LANrover with 8 serial ports and Ethernet (vs. Token Ring).
I installed those LANrovers. In 1993. Do the math.
I have been doing this for a long, long time.
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But if I'm ever in your neighborhood, I'll buy us pitcher of good beer, and tell stories for my half of it.
I'd be delighted to hoist a pint with you if you're ever in Connecticut.
I missed the days of genning NetWare 2x from diskettes by just a smidge, and all of the routers I've herded have had their OS image on flash. OTOH, I could probably remember the IRQ/port address pairs for COM1 and COM2 if you put a gun to my head. And jumpers? I still have bags of jumpers downstairs.