Subj : Re: ping
To   : John Donohue
From : William McBrine
Date : Wed Jan 07 2004 12:21 am

-=> John Donohue wrote to All <=-

 JD> My LAN at home is still sneakernet. How pathetic is that!? ;-)

Pretty bad. :-) I've had a LAN in my house since 1996.

 JD> The CP/M-80 box no se habla 'network'

Yeah, that one's probably hopeless.

 JD> the PS2 OS/2 2.1 box only has a token ring card

I had one of those. Bought an Ethernet card at a Hamfest (see below), and
sold the token ring card online for more than the computer cost. :-) It's
only a 386. It's in the closet now, but it's ready to go...

 JD> the 486-133 DOS box isn't worth hooking to a network

My 486/133 is a vital part of my network. But then, it's running Linux.  
It's a mail/DNS/time server. (It used to do more, but various functions
have migrated to other systems, like my hardware router.)

I also have a 286 and two 8088's hooked up. I got the cards used, cheap
(about $3 each at Hamfests), and it's worth it to have extra terminals to
log in from.

.... Light year -- Same great distance, only half the calories.
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