pithydoug wrote:
Me too. Punch tape, cards(BCDIC EBCDIC), DOS, PCP, MFT, MVT, Vm, Unix, linix, etc., etc. My head hurts :) :)
Me also. I started computers in the punch tape/punch card days (built my own) than sold Compaq (the original) Osborne, Commodore (prior to the 64), Atari 400 (my first "real computer" Atari 800, Apple II,(Ran both Apple Dos and CPM, Apple III, Lisa (sold off my 10,000 shares of Apple stock when it dropped to .15 a share) and started with PC's at Dos, and Can't remember the name of the competitor to Dos that had compression etc). I also had cassette tape drives, floppy disks, 3.5 disks, a Corvus 10 MB hard drive (wow that as a lot of storage in those days). I was one of the very early network engineers and was an expert at Arcnet, Token Ring, 10-base T, 3M's new thing called Ethernet, etc. I specialized in building networks for doctors, hospitals, insurance companies etc. and mainly used Novell as my server OS of choice. Having taken this trip down memory lane, and I still have a box of Novell Netware 2, box of Netware 3 and a box of Netware 4. I also have 3 Redhat servers and 2 Windows servers (one is a Windows Business server). Note I still use the RedHat and Windows servers for my internet connection and one of the Redhat Servers is located in my "Demilitarized Zone" between my outside firewall to the internet and my secondary "inside firewall" to my local network. Yes, it is overkill but I still enjoy playing with them. I also have my old Cisco Catalyst 5500 switch with fiber cards and a 100gigabit and 100 Megabit router card to the outside (drove Verizon Fios support nuts and now drives Brighthouse nuts when I tell them that they have an issue between my house and the CO.) Yes I am a computer Geek that got started back in the day and just kept adding used network equipment to my system as my old employers (a large multi-national insurance company located in Hartford Ct. that I retired from before I went to and retired from Nikon in Melville and moved to Florida) updated and scrapped their old (to them) network gear.