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Part of the Furniture
Since we're talking old HW...
20 years ago - my primary desktop/workstation... Macintosh IIx - 8MB RAM, DEC DSP3107L 1GB SCSI, Apple 8*24 card running a 20" grey scale CRT, Asante 10MB ethernet card, all running on A/UX 3.0.2 - had a dedicated bonded channel ISDN connection (128Mbit symmetric), forget what the terminal adapter was there, IIRC it was some kind of 3com box - and a US Robotics v.Everything dialup modem over serial...
That was the home box, at the office, I had a Sun SS20 with a shed-load of RAM/Storage, and a big color CRT for development, and a toshiba laptop for email/productivity apps - that SS20 followed me around on office moves for about 8 years, until 2003, when I shifted employers..
Those were the days
20 years ago - my primary desktop/workstation... Macintosh IIx - 8MB RAM, DEC DSP3107L 1GB SCSI, Apple 8*24 card running a 20" grey scale CRT, Asante 10MB ethernet card, all running on A/UX 3.0.2 - had a dedicated bonded channel ISDN connection (128Mbit symmetric), forget what the terminal adapter was there, IIRC it was some kind of 3com box - and a US Robotics v.Everything dialup modem over serial...
That was the home box, at the office, I had a Sun SS20 with a shed-load of RAM/Storage, and a big color CRT for development, and a toshiba laptop for email/productivity apps - that SS20 followed me around on office moves for about 8 years, until 2003, when I shifted employers..
Those were the days
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