Fred, I think you might win with that one. I remember those but my parents said I was "too young for such an expensive hobby". As a side note: I played games such as Star Trek and Zork (no video) on a very old computer when I worked for IBM as a Field Engineer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_360 Had my own little VM partitioned on it for "service purposes". Spent a lot of late nights at that customer site! -RickG
On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Fred Goldstein <[email protected]>wrote: > At 11/12/2010 12:56 AM, you wrote: > > I win. HA! > > > I still have my old DEC PDP-11 (actually, a PDT-11/150, with an LSI-11 CPU, > 60kB, and two 8-inch floppies). I haven't fired it up in years, but I > recently pulled out the 8" floppy case to show some young people. of the > iPod generation, what they looked like. > > It ran (runs?) RT-11. CP/M was based on RT-11 (in the "bad imitation" > sense). MS-DOS was likewise based on CP/M. > > I stopped using it regularly when I got an Atari ST ("Jackintosh"). That > could run a version of Phil Karn's NET and TOS, so I was able to use it for > TCP/IP over packet radio in 1987. 1200 bps semi-Aloha. Its protocol > analyzer mode showed every packet going by, and it was slow enough to really > study the operation in real time. > > > > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected]<[email protected]>] > *On Behalf Of *RickG > *Sent:* Thursday, November 11, 2010 8:33 PM > *To:* WISPA General List > *Subject:* Re: [WISPA] UBNT AUTO Channel > > LOL! Here we go again with the "dating game" :) > My first "laptop" was this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Portable > It was really cool but weighed as much as sewing machine which was the term > we gave it. > -RickG > On Thu, Nov 11, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Forbes Mercy <[email protected]> > wrote: > My first "LAP"top was a Kaypro 10, thank goodness I didn't have to pay > baggage on it since it was as large as my travel bag... monochrome green > screen with a huge 10MB hard drive and ran hot enough to fry an egg. > > > On 11/11/2010 8:09 AM, Mark Nash wrote: > Haha... You young people don't remember the term WYSIWYG (what you see is > what you get)... A term for applications that made it so that documents > actually LOOKED on your screen like they were going to print (anyone > remember Kaypro & WordStar?). > > I had a revolutionary idea technological in the early 90's... I called it > WYGIWYM... What you get is what you MEAN. I'da been a qua-jillionaire but I > didn't execute. Oh well. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Scott Carullo <[email protected]> > To: WISPA General List <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 5:35 PM > Subject: Re: [WISPA] UBNT AUTO Channel > > I'd pay a little more when they come out with the auto-install feature... > > Maybe one day - Auto-Everything. Just take it out of the box and plug it > in. It figures out what to do where... > > They can call it AIRverywhere > Scott Carullo > Technical Operations > 855-FLSPEED x102 > > > ------------------------------ > From: "Robert West" < [email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, November 10, 2010 8:31 PM > To: "WISPA General List" <[email protected]> <[email protected]> > Subject: [WISPA] UBNT AUTO Channel > FYI………… > > I’m hesitant to jump into UBNT Beta firmware for large scale deployment, > lesson learned the hard way……… But the latest includes channel hopping and > Auto channel. I’ve had ongoing issues with random interference and every > couple of weeks or so have had to change my frequencies on pretty much all > my UBNT radios. But I took the plunge with this new beta and it’s been > SOLID for me for a week now. I tried the channel hopping but it was too > busy for me. My noise floor was all over the place. SUCKED and way too > random for me BUT just doing a simple AUTO channel…………. Smooth as silk! My > interference is now GONE. My throughput has increased and my noise floor > went from an average -85 to a -95 to -100 average. Running 5GHz on all > links…….. I call this one a WIN! > > As I said, FYI. Nothing but good on this UBNT Beta. It’s about time! J > > > -- > Fred Goldstein k1io fgoldstein "at" ionary.com > ionary Consulting http://www.ionary.com/ > +1 617 795 2701 > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > WISPA Wants You! Join today! > http://signup.wispa.org/ > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > WISPA Wireless List: [email protected] > > Subscribe/Unsubscribe: > http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > > Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ > -- -RickG
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