This is bringing back memories of DecNet and LAT, not good ones either. ;)
On 11/04/2010 12:38 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote:
On 11/4/10 9:09 AM, Gary Baribault wrote:
I sure am glad to see that I'm not the only crazy/dinosaur lurking on
this list! It really gives me hope for the future!
Of course to do this job right, a good memory help, and being crazy is
nearly a prerequisite to last!:-)
I know several people locally who still do legacy setups, and they
make pretty decent money, given the fact that many of the people who
have intimate knowledge of the mainframe era and such are long gone.
One of my former customers used to use 10Base2 in their factory to do
an ethernet link across the production floor that couldn't be done
cheaply with fiber and that regular ethernet would have interference
problems.
Me, I've got PhoneNet and LocalTalk wiring for when I do work on my
classic Macs. My cute little SE/30 can route MacIP at a blistering
230kbps for these older systems. I've also got these really nice SCSI
to Ethernet adapters which comes in handy when all else fails. :)
As for legacy technology, I've got a Cisco 7507 loaded to the gills
with every type of interface card we could get (never know when you
might need a channelized T3 for something), a 6009 loaded with 10/100
interfaces, 7204 (in use) for routing T1s, a 1600 series routing
another T1, a 1000 sitting on the shelf as a spare for the 1600...
Oh, and then there's the Netopia R9100s and R5300s back from the late
90s/early 2000s...
There's always a place for old technology, esp. when newer technology
falls flat on its face so often. :-)
