Subj : Re: Retro BBS Tech
To   : Vk3jed
From : bcw142
Date : Fri Jun 09 2017 13:09:00

On 06/09/17, Vk3jed said the following...
 Vk> Yes, they were exciting times, and when I worked in IT, it was very
 Vk> interesting.  It was a time when you could build a lot of systems, and
 Vk> had to do so, if you wanted a service without paying what the big end of
 Vk> town paid.  I put a business on the Internet with a number of Linux
 Vk> boxes, forming an Internet connected network complete with proper DMZ,
 Vk> screening firewall and a NAT router.  A web server lived in the DMZ, and
 Vk> one or two other public facing systems.  Today, all that stuff is done
 Vk> by cheap boxes from China (most of us have at least one between us and
 Vk> the Internet ;) ).

Just what I do with a raspberry pi now (it's my dmz/web/bbs) ;)

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