Re: Internet Talk Radio

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I do still have the toaster. It spends most of its time on a shelf in =
our storage room. It still work though it has a slightly concerning =
aroma when it toasts.

The controller was basically just a relay controlled from a parallel =
port on a computer and who has parallel ports anymore?

(Hi Karl :))
	- john


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> On Jul 23, 2026, at 1:06=E2=80=AFAM, Karl Auerbach via =
Internet-history <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Ah I have not seen that video before.  (I missed most of the Paris =
shows because I was busy trying to figure out how to redeploy an =
existing constellation of Russian low earth orbit satellites with newer =
satellites with on-board, hardened Sun SPARC processors routing IP =
packets between the satellites. I can't say whether I was bothered or =
whether I was pleased by not going to a launch in the middle of the =
desert in Kazakhstan.)
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> About all I remember about the Paris shows that I did go to were that =
the convention space had really low ceilings and that we bought a =
hundred kilos of really high end chocolates - it was something like =
$10,000 - in 1990's dollars - of magnificent chocolate.)
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> I notice Simon Hackett in the video with the internet juke box - we =
had that thing in the carriage house of the Victorian house occupied by =
TGV in Santa Cruz (and later my company's office spaces.)  It was very =
annoying when Simon, in Adelaide, changed what we were listening to in =
Santa Cruz as well as the sound level.
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> I think we used that carriage house to do some testing of Simon's =
Internet toaster.
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> Here's a link to a photo of Simon from that era... =
https://www.cavebear.com/archive/interop/simon.gif
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> (My SNMP code was used in both the John Romkey and the Hackett =
Internet toasters.  By-the-way, John R. mentioned that he still has that =
toaster [but not the control unit].)  Both Internet toasters used =
Sunbeam Radiant toasters (because they would lower the bread into the =
slots when power was applied and lift the bread out when power was =
discontinued.)
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> By-the-way, Simon (and I think perhaps Stuart Vance) built the first =
portable Internet telephones in that same carriage house in Santa Cruz.  =
We called 'em Etherphones and they made it onto one of Epilogue =
Technology's cool T-shirts, I'll have to take a photograph and post it.
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> Simon had a story of how he got into the telco business.....  He was =
running a radio based ISP service from the top of the highest building =
in Adelaide.  But he wanted to run a cable across the city street at the =
base of the building.  The authorities said "no, you must be a telco to =
have the right to rip up streets and run cables."  So Simon went through =
the paperwork to become an official, government recognized telco - so he =
could run some cable under the street.  Thus the start, I believe, of =
Internode.
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>         --karl--
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> On 7/22/26 11:17 PM, Jack Haverty wrote:
>> On 7/22/26 18:10, Karl Auerbach wrote:
>>> I'm not sure which "Interop Movie" you mean.
>> This one:
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>> https://archive.org/details/interop_france_1992
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