Date   : Mon, 29 Mar 2004 05:29:32 -0500
From   : "Chris Jones" <chris@...>
Subject: Re: MDFS incomplete startup

Jules wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 09:18, Chris Jones wrote:
> > I can remember the early Econet installation at Netherhall School in
> > Cambridge. It was wired using cheapo four-core burglar alarm cable 
(not
> > twisted-pair telephone wire) hand-soldered to 5-pin DIN sockets 
mounted in
> > standard electrical socket boxes. 
> > ...
> Small world...
> 
> Upper or Lower school? I have a good deal of the Lower school's Econet
> network tucked away in a cupboard after it was finally dismantled last
> year. All the cabling I got was the official stuff, along with the 2
> port boxes and a clock unit. I could have saved a lot more, but I only
> have ten or so machines with Econet capability :-)

This was in the upper school, now demolished. Room 64 on the 2nd floor. 
Level 1 file server, single-sided 40 track disc drive initially (I 
still have several floppies with the "&.FS" BASIC file server program 
on them which couldn't serve any file bigger than the spare RAM 
available), later upgraded to an E01 Filestore with an unimaginably 
huge 20MB hard disc. Ah, *I AM SYST, those were the days. I've never 
encountered another networking system which let you get up to quite 
such dirty tricks with other people's computers ;-)

Chris
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