Re: "Hypothetical" Datacenter Overheating

[bzs () theworld com]

For completeness' sake at the first commercial ISP to sell individual
dial-up to the public, The World, we had six of those typical desktop
2400bps modems (I forget the brand tho I still have them, a photo also
I think) sitting on a file cabinet in an office space in Brookline, MA
plugged into a Sun 4/280. I bought those modems from a local computer
retail store on my own personal credit card thinking maybe others
would like to try this internet thing, and we'd just gotten access to
a T1.

On January 17, 2024 at 09:28 kauer () biplane com au (Karl Auer) wrote:
> On Tue, 2024-01-16 at 10:44 -0800, Jay Hennigan wrote:
> > We made our own. And then we had to deal with all the wall warts. We 
> > rigged up a power supply with a big snake of barrel jacks.
>
> Luxury. We had a hamster in a hamster wheel for each modem.
>
> Ah, the old days.
>
> Regards, K.
>
> -- 
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> Karl Auer (kauer () biplane com au)
> http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer

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        -Barry Shein

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