poindexter FORTRAN wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Those early days were fun. I worked at a software company from 1992 to 1995, and we had a 56K leased line to UC Berkeley and to the internet.
We used a Cisco router, Kalpana 5-port Ethernet switch, and hubs - each department had their own switched collision domain. Big stuff back
Yes, the IT industry was fun back then. I put a company online, initially using a proxy, then switch to a Linux based NAT over a 56k PPP line. The cheap NAT routers were still years off, and anything else was well out of budget. Linux was relatively unknown, but I demonstrated that it would work well in a corporate setting.
then.
I moved us from a LAN-based email system called QuickMail to a BSD box running a POP/NNTP server and SMTP, and we set up a small WfW workgroup for our tech support guys along with a couple of IP apps.
I did similar, though they wanted a more "corporate" system. Initially Lotus Notes, but eventually went to MS Exchange (urk), until many years later, migrating to cloud based email.
The amount of change we implemented in a short time was pretty amazing.
Same here, they were heady days, I have fond memories of them. Over the years, IT became more "corporate". Low end issues were handled by cheap Chinese boxes, the rest was the big end of town - the former did me out of work, the latter isn't me. I eventually moved out of IT altogether as a career, though it does remain a hobby. :)
... It's funny because *I* said it!
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