On 05/27/2018 10:36 AM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Oh, I don't want to make a Novell exhibit, I was suggesting someone who supported Novell in it's heyday or wishes to learn it do the exhibit because we need something new and we need to broaden the scope of the types of exhibits we present. 1989 would be 30 years ago, I'd avoid something too new because we are still generally-speaking an 80's and older-scope event.
The exhibitor should try to create a Novell office environment. An office department that does CAD drawings and processing for example, wordpressing, dbase III, custom C menu interfaces, etc.
Sorry about that Bill. My offer to borrow my NE2000 still stand to the gentleman who was planning the network exhibit, if he wants it. Now I'm going to shoot myself in the foot and say perhaps a counter exhibit of an industrial communications network would be in order. I have a Circuit Cellar HCS II (Home Control System) which is based on Steve Ciarcia's BCC180 (the industrial version). It has a multi-drop network (R485, half-duplex) and is all 8-bit. I'll have to see how hard this will be to resurrect a complete system. I have the compete information on this system. :-) Does anyone else have information of networking on the 8 bit computers? -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies