Re: Speaking of old hardware

Jon Lewis <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.internet-access
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri, 18 May 2007, Jeff Lasman wrote:

>> That, of course was when we had an array of
>> USR sportsters mounted on pegboard with db-25 shielded cables to
>> PM-2ERs, with centrex hunting courtesy of Ma Bell on a 5-year minimum
>> contract.
>
> Somewhere around seven to ten years ago we bought an ISP with that sort
> of setup.  We didn't want the hardware <smile>.

The good old days.  Linux terminal servers using Comtrol and Cyclades 
multiport cards, rows and rows of Sportsters, and the Digicrap rack modem 
box...and a PM2ei for ISDN:

http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/modems1.jpg

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