[131803] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Token ring? topic hijack: was Re: Mystery open source switching
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jason LeBlanc)
Thu Nov 4 15:22:23 2010
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 15:22:02 -0400
From: Jason LeBlanc <jml@packetpimp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4CD2E17C.9070000@2mbit.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
This is bringing back memories of DecNet and LAT, not good ones either. ;)
On 11/04/2010 12:38 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote:
> On 11/4/10 9:09 AM, Gary Baribault wrote:
>> I sure am glad to see that I'm not the only crazy/dinosaur lurking on
>> this list! It really gives me hope for the future!
>>
>> Of course to do this job right, a good memory help, and being crazy is
>> nearly a prerequisite to last!:-)
>
> I know several people locally who still do legacy setups, and they
> make pretty decent money, given the fact that many of the people who
> have intimate knowledge of the mainframe era and such are long gone.
>
> One of my former customers used to use 10Base2 in their factory to do
> an ethernet link across the production floor that couldn't be done
> cheaply with fiber and that regular ethernet would have interference
> problems.
>
> Me, I've got PhoneNet and LocalTalk wiring for when I do work on my
> classic Macs. My cute little SE/30 can route MacIP at a blistering
> 230kbps for these older systems. I've also got these really nice SCSI
> to Ethernet adapters which comes in handy when all else fails. :)
>
> As for legacy technology, I've got a Cisco 7507 loaded to the gills
> with every type of interface card we could get (never know when you
> might need a channelized T3 for something), a 6009 loaded with 10/100
> interfaces, 7204 (in use) for routing T1s, a 1600 series routing
> another T1, a 1000 sitting on the shelf as a spare for the 1600...
> Oh, and then there's the Netopia R9100s and R5300s back from the late
> 90s/early 2000s...
>
>
> There's always a place for old technology, esp. when newer technology
> falls flat on its face so often. :-)
>
