That's a rad bit of history.
I was a bit later than that (and was a general admin rather than a network
admin) but at my second tech job they still had Token Ring in place. Can't
remember when our IBM stuff was finally retired.
On Fri, Mar 24, 2023 at 3:01 PM deichert@placebonol.com <
deichert@placebonol.com> wrote:
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> On March 24, 2023 9:35:08 AM MDT, Kaya Saman <kayasaman@gmail.com> wrote:
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> SNIP
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> >This is really interesting! Thank you Diana.... you sound very much like
> the very nice tech support team member that I just got off the phone with.
> I really wish I had proper ISP experience in me rather then end user type
> now, it sounds like a lot of fun and a great learning experience.... back
> in the day it was everything I studied for but too many road blocks in the
> middle with my health being the worst :-(
> >
> SNIP
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> >Kaya
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> chuckle, hopefully my explanation was useful. I've been doing this
> network thing since 10Mb thickwire Ethernet with all the fun of piranha
> taps, AUI connectors and properly terminated segments.
>
> Long distance WAN was done over 56Kbaud synchronous serial links, that was
> if you worked for an organization that could afford a dedicated 56Kbaud
> link. Our facility had to make due with a 19.2Kbaud synchronous serial
> link over ~2000 miles, think middle of New Mexico USA to middle of Ohio USA.
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> diana
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> Have fun
> diana
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