Mark,
Your mention of the cost of equipment years back reminded me of the
time I was VP Marketing (Canada) for Peripheral General (now merged
in with some other company). In the 1970's I sold Queens's
University in Kingston, a string of 8 disc drives, each 29Mbytes,
with controller that needed an air conditioned room - the contract
was for 4 years at somewhere around $2,500 per month. Now I can get
that total storage for less than $10 cash outright
!!!........................and then there is my laptop !!!!!
At 11:59 AM 11/27/2011, Mark J Bradakis wrote:
>The Team.Net domain was registered in April of 1991. Pretty early in the
>world of the internet, we used to have to tell people that the dot was
>not silent. Folks have figured that out by now.
>
>But the lists were around in some form or other since about 1988, back
>in the beginning it was just british-cars and autox. Dale Cook was the
>one who first hosted the lists, then Jim Muller, who still is on the Triumph
>and Spitfire lists, took over, then I hosted it from work. But eventually the
>network traffic became noticeable and my superiors wondered about the
>use of University facilities for personal use.
>
>That was when we registered team.net and I set up shop in my home.
>The first fund drive netted enough money to get a nice machine, an HP
>with one of the first processors clocked over 100 Meg! It cost nearly
>$2,500. The U of U was doing a lot of work with HP in those days, so
>I had an in with them. I think I still have that box somewhere in the
>house. Back in the late 80s the stack of HP stuff that made up my
>system at work had a retail value of $125,000, roughly 4 times the
>cost of the house my wife and I bought.
>
>I keep thinking I should write up a history of Team.Net and try to
>dig out some of the messages from the earlier days. A lot of it is
>stored on 1/4 tape cartridges which at the moment I can't read.
>But I might have enough old hardware laying around to set up
>a system to do that. We shall see.
>
>mjb.
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Regards
Barrie
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