All — Long ago I had a MultiTech POTS rack modem bank that I got when I cleaned out part of Temple University’s “elephant graveyard”. Of course, I don’t have it any longer, but I have a project I’m working on that could use one. If anyone has one of these, or the Hayes equivalent, and wants to get rid of it, keep me in mind. It would just have to have at least 8 modem cards. Thanks! Rich http://www.classiccmp.org/cini Long Island S100 User’s Group Get Outlook<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> for iOS
All — Long ago I had a MultiTech POTS rack modem bank that I got when I cleaned out part of Temple University’s “elephant graveyard”. Of course, I don’t have it any longer, but I have a project I’m working on that could use one. If anyone has one of these, or the Hayes equivalent, and wants to get rid of it, keep me in mind. It would just have to have at least 8 modem cards. Thanks! Rich
Don't forget the sexy USRobotics MP/8 and MP/16! - Ethan
Nice modem bank but not enough blinkenkights :-) Something like that could work with some sort of RJ45-DB25 adapters (the Digi serial board I have uses DB25’s). http://www.classiccmp.org/cini Long Island S100 User’s Group Get Outlook<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> for iOS ________________________________ From: Ethan O'Toole <telmnstr@757.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2020 4:15:07 PM To: Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Richard Cini <rich.cini@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Modem banks
All — Long ago I had a MultiTech POTS rack modem bank that I got when I cleaned out part of Temple University’s “elephant graveyard”. Of course, I don’t have it any longer, but I have a project I’m working on that could use one. If anyone has one of these, or the Hayes equivalent, and wants to get rid of it, keep me in mind. It would just have to have at least 8 modem cards. Thanks! Rich
Don't forget the sexy USRobotics MP/8 and MP/16! - Ethan
Port master 2/e with 30 sportster modems hanging off it. That is how Erol’s internet started. They used the spinner racks from their video store to hold them all. I knew someone that worked there a little later, but the story was passed down. On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 4:36 PM Richard Cini via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
Nice modem bank but not enough blinkenkights :-)
Something like that could work with some sort of RJ45-DB25 adapters (the Digi serial board I have uses DB25’s).
http://www.classiccmp.org/cini
Long Island S100 User’s Group
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All —
Long ago I had a MultiTech POTS rack modem bank that I got when I cleaned out part of Temple University’s “elephant graveyard”. Of course, I don’t have it any longer, but I have a project I’m working on that could use one.
If anyone has one of these, or the Hayes equivalent, and wants to get rid of it, keep me in mind. It would just have to have at least 8 modem cards.
Thanks!
Rich
Don't forget the sexy USRobotics MP/8 and MP/16!
- Ethan
On 9/1/20 4:39 PM, Kimberley Hart via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Port master 2/e with 30 sportster modems hanging off it. That is how Erol’s internet started. They used the spinner racks from their video store to hold them all. I knew someone that worked there a little later, but the story was passed down.
We did exactly that at Digex, we pushed those PM-2Es hard. In the beginning we held the modems on rack-mounted shelves, but we had a lot of problems with overheating, We initially spaced them out with Legos (yes, Legos!), but we quickly replaced them with custom-made metal trays with spacer pins as soon as we could afford to do so. (When courting $100K+/mo contracts with datacenter tours, one must establish credibility and build trust...and one doesn't do that with Legos.) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
Way back when I had a tour of the Digex data center and NOC. We were not that large but I was in Baltimore for a ISP Conference and had extra time so I setup a meeting. It was a nice facility. After we were done my sales guy asked me to hang on a second while he checked something. As it turns out the box was free at Camden Yards and the Orioles were playing. So we grabbed anyone still at the office and free and headed on over to the game. We talked nerd stuff the whole time and paid little attention to the game. As it turns out Ripken had just set the record for the most consecutive games the games before. Needless to say we went with Digex, no because of the box sets etc... but because they were true heels and knew what they were doing. Plus the boss liked the price. On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 8:14 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 9/1/20 4:39 PM, Kimberley Hart via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Port master 2/e with 30 sportster modems hanging off it. That is how Erol’s
internet started. They used the spinner racks from their video store to
hold them all. I knew someone that worked there a little later, but the
story was passed down.
We did exactly that at Digex, we pushed those PM-2Es hard. In the
beginning we held the modems on rack-mounted shelves, but we had a lot
of problems with overheating, We initially spaced them out with Legos
(yes, Legos!), but we quickly replaced them with custom-made metal trays
with spacer pins as soon as we could afford to do so.
(When courting $100K+/mo contracts with datacenter tours, one must
establish credibility and build trust...and one doesn't do that with Legos.)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Ahh, very cool. And thank you, this is good to hear. I started that NOC, and ran it for its first couple of years. Us early folks (Ed Kern, Matt Mosley, Mag Krokes, Bert Quattro) built the datacenter that you toured. It's likely that you met one or more of us during your tour; we didn't allow salespeople in the NOC or the datacenter without an escort from engineering. To this day I remain embarrassed that the sales droids used all of that two-syllable sports crap as a sales tactic, but at least you were able to ignore it. When companies start to get big and suitly, the sportsball types start slipping past the smell test and we end up stuck with them. I'm glad we earned your business in spite of that, and I hope your company was pleased with the service we provided. I was employee #3 at Digex, and I stayed there until it started getting too big and suitly. Those were great years for many of us. We are all still in touch, and we all universally believe that Digex was the finest environment we'd ever worked in. -Dave On 9/1/20 8:30 PM, Kimberley Hart via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Way back when I had a tour of the Digex data center and NOC. We were not that large but I was in Baltimore for a ISP Conference and had extra time so I setup a meeting. It was a nice facility. After we were done my sales guy asked me to hang on a second while he checked something. As it turns out the box was free at Camden Yards and the Orioles were playing. So we grabbed anyone still at the office and free and headed on over to the game. We talked nerd stuff the whole time and paid little attention to the game. As it turns out Ripken had just set the record for the most consecutive games the games before.
Needless to say we went with Digex, no because of the box sets etc... but because they were true heels and knew what they were doing. Plus the boss liked the price.
On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 8:14 PM Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 9/1/20 4:39 PM, Kimberley Hart via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Port master 2/e with 30 sportster modems hanging off it. That is how Erol’s
internet started. They used the spinner racks from their video store to
hold them all. I knew someone that worked there a little later, but the
story was passed down.
We did exactly that at Digex, we pushed those PM-2Es hard. In the
beginning we held the modems on rack-mounted shelves, but we had a lot
of problems with overheating, We initially spaced them out with Legos
(yes, Legos!), but we quickly replaced them with custom-made metal trays
with spacer pins as soon as we could afford to do so.
(When courting $100K+/mo contracts with datacenter tours, one must
establish credibility and build trust...and one doesn't do that with Legos.)
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
If you look on eBay now, there’s a modern-ish MultiTech modem rack that literally has 7 desktop modems in it. On the rear of the crate, the DB25 sticks out and they have a power harness with 5.5mm coaxial power plugs. The one I had years ago was the more conventional plugin card type. Killing myself for not keeping it. http://www.classiccmp.org/cini Long Island S100 User’s Group Get Outlook<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> for iOS ________________________________ From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> on behalf of Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2020 8:14:18 PM To: Kimberley Hart via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Modem banks On 9/1/20 4:39 PM, Kimberley Hart via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Port master 2/e with 30 sportster modems hanging off it. That is how Erol’s internet started. They used the spinner racks from their video store to hold them all. I knew someone that worked there a little later, but the story was passed down.
We did exactly that at Digex, we pushed those PM-2Es hard. In the beginning we held the modems on rack-mounted shelves, but we had a lot of problems with overheating, We initially spaced them out with Legos (yes, Legos!), but we quickly replaced them with custom-made metal trays with spacer pins as soon as we could afford to do so. (When courting $100K+/mo contracts with datacenter tours, one must establish credibility and build trust...and one doesn't do that with Legos.) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
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