What would be fun as hell, if we had enough Macs and phone-net adapters, that during VCFeXI, would be to setup a phone net network with a node at each display, have various multi-player games running across it, chat rooms (if such beasties exist), etc. I think it would be a rather interesting, widespread display. If not logistically possible across both display rooms, maybe just all around one room? (But would love to see it across both rooms, it would be an awesome network to configure) On Sunday, January 3, 2016, Douglas Crawford via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On 1/3/2016 8:38 PM, Joseph Oprysko via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Can you **REALLY** call early PC networking (like arcnet) EASY?? It was SUCH a pain performing memory management.
Thats kind of what I meant, but as usual didn't clearly say... that Mac's networking was easier than PCs options of the same era, which weren't really easy. I implemented our companies first arcnet and it was a good project for an engineer, (and I wasn't necessarily and early adopter maybe 1988 or so?) but MAC users in art companies were connecting MACs together without fuss. That's how I remember it.
-- Normal Person: Hey, it seems that you know a lot. Geek: To be honest, it's due to all the surfing I do. Normal Person: So you go surfing? Normal Person: But I don't think that has anything to do with knowing a lot... Geek: I think that's wrong on a fundamental level. Normal Person: Huh? Huh? What?