Re: happy bday IGS-R

[steve wolff <swolff () cisco com>]

Well, mumble: NSF first got on the Internet through a P4200.  It sat in my
office because MIS didn't want to have anything to do with it...  -s

Brent Sweeny wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 15, 2001 at 02:27:53PM -0800, Sean Donelan wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 February 2001, Hank Nussbacher wrote:
> > > An extra 10 if you have any printed manuals from that far back!
> >
> > Back then, ALL the manuals were printed.  None of this funky
> > CDROM or download the page from the Cisco web site when your cisco
> > router isn't routing and you can't get to the cisco web site.
> >
> > And my favorite.  You didn't have to pass a test to buy stuff
> > directly from Cisco.  I got my first IGS-R for 50% off because
> > Cisco was competing against Proteon, and the Cisco sales person
> > was happy to sell me one.
>
> I remember way back then, when we were evaluating whether to buy Proteon
> or Cisco, scanning the hosts table (which still listed all the routers
> in the internet then, along with what KIND they were) to see what Cisco's
> market penetration was.  it was growing fast enough that we thought they
> might stay in business.  ;)    it's still a good idea for cisco to remember
> proteon (and what they did wrong), though virtually no one from cisco today
> has ever heard of proteon, too bad--the lessons are still relevant, perhaps
> more than ever.
>
> and the entire manual set (hardware--all 3 models of routers--and
> software) all fit into one looseleaf manual.  i still have mine from 6.x
> and 7.x, though i can't find earlier, darn.
>       Brent Sweeny, Indiana University

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