> Nope, I haven't been in IT since the mid-80's, but I did grow up with > modems (all the way back the the venerable Anderson Jacobsen 300 baud > units that you had to put your telephone handset into). A bit too much > latency for Sun Ray, even with Kent's great work on low bandwidth ;-)
:-) Someone should implement a Sun Ray connection over the famous pigeon IP protocol... > > BTW what is this? Looks like a downed Heinkel He 111 with some > > strange directional antenna attached... or is it some tractor gear? > > You are very close - this is a Heinkel He 111 H-8 Cable Cutter which was > used to cut the cables of British barrage balloons which were put up > over > London and other parts of the UK during the war: > > http://www.historyofwar.org/Pictures/pictures_he_111_cable_cutter1.html Fascinating. Never seen that before... I should have looked at the file name in the attachment. I guess I am spoiled now that even emacs displays images inline. > cutting mechanism and their use was quickly abandoned. "A" for effort > though. Yes, there was lots of misguided effort around here at that time. Regards -- Volker -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Volker A. Brandt Consulting and Support for Sun Solaris Brandt & Brandt Computer GmbH WWW: http://www.bb-c.de/ Am Wiesenpfad 6, 53340 Meckenheim Email: [email protected] Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Bonn, HRB 10513 Schuhgröße: 45 Geschäftsführer: Rainer J. H. Brandt und Volker A. Brandt _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
