[vcf-midatlantic] Idea for an Exhibit - Novell
Jason Perkins
perkins.jason at gmail.com
Mon Jun 4 12:26:18 EDT 2018
I was just reminded of some spoof advertisement videos Novell had on their
website back in 2002 which I downloaded. The "Flying Boy" one is a good
chuckle IMO:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLcFX6_3x7JTaiJeR49_8b6Sgy-nFwfOWn
On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 9:56 AM, Bill Degnan via vcf-midatlantic <
vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 24, 2018 at 9:44 AM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic <
> vcf-midatlantic at lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
>
> > On 05/23/2018 02:29 PM, William Sudbrink via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
> >
> >> Ethan O'Toole wrote:
> >>
> >> ArtSoft Lantastic here! Home soldered null modem cable.
> >>>
> >>
> >> My first was Lantastic too. Running on ArcNet.
> >>
> >> Bill S.
> >>
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> >
> > I did AT&T network support and I mostly had AT&T Starlan (SMB/ISO)
> > but I do recall playing with IBM NetBEUI and having to solder. I think
> > it was arcnet based hardware.
> >
> >
> Another network protocol I wanted to exhibit someday was IBM's Token Ring.
> When I worked there in college I used to set up Token Ring networks for
> sales demos, driving up and down the State of Delaware from Wilmington to
> Salisbury. I did more than just Token Ring, everything they were selling
> in 1987 that could be fit into the back of a 1980 Toyota Tercel. Display
> Writers, PS/2's, Terminals, etc. Sometimes larger systems would be at the
> location waiting for me, like System 36's.
> b
>
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