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Granite

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May 20, 2023
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Decided to sign up after finding so many useful bits here over the past year or so.

I work in I/T training and have my share of grey in my beard. I've been building home networks since 4-node Doom II over IPX on 16mbps token ring was cutting edge stuff. I've recently been enjoying the bargain basement prices on enterprise hardware and building servers. I'm most recently working on some 10Gbps infrastructure at home. I manage a decent sized lab at work. I dabble in Linux, moodle, VIOS, AIX, SAN, networking, and pretty much anything else I can get my hands on.

Thanks for all the fixes I've found here.
 

Marsh

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Welcome to STH

IPX over token ring , network technology that I have not heard or deal with it over 30 years.

Back when I was a young guy, me being lowest man on the totem pole , I had to work on Oracle driver for IBM token ring.
If you are wondering my age, I am 68 years old.
 
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Granite

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Hah! I figured there would be someone around who remembered that stuff. I've got 28 years in and a ways to go yet. We are cleaning out a facility right now and the other day I saw a Micro Channel adapter in the recycle bins.
 

ccie4526

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Reminds me of the several days where I was at <unnamed luggage manufacturer> in <unnamed location> helping them convert from 4/16 Choken Ring to Fast Ethernet... we were using Catalyst 5000s with 12-port FastE and 4-port TokenRing modules....
 

edge

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Hah! I figured there would be someone around who remembered that stuff. I've got 28 years in and a ways to go yet. We are cleaning out a facility right now and the other day I saw a Micro Channel adapter in the recycle bins.
How about the 79 5.25" floppy swaps to install Netware 2.15, do you remember that?

Micro channel, ouch.
 
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Granite

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How about the 79 5.25" floppy swaps to install Netware 2.15, do you remember that?

Micro channel, ouch.
Microchannel and OS/2, baby!

Thankfully, no. I think I first experienced Netware at 3.11.

Look what I found this week... What is that I see?


State of the art ca. 1987