Coda

[Ronan Flood]

In message <8mp58m$hvp$1...@canard.ulcc.ac.uk> back in Aug 2000,
I wrote:

> [...] "the JANET X.25 network" these days comprises five Suns
> connected to a Cisco router operating as a switch [...]

That switch was ceremoniously turned off today, marking the true
end of JANET X.25 service.

--
Ronan Flood <R.F...@noc.ulcc.ac.uk>
working for but not speaking for
Network Services, University of London Computer Centre
(which means: don't bother ULCC if I've said something you don't like)

[Molly Mockford]

In article <b13s1b$aou$1...@canard.ulcc.ac.uk> at 17:59:07 on Mon, 27 Jan

2003, Ronan Flood <ro...@noc.ulcc.ac.uk> wrote:

>In message <8mp58m$hvp$1...@canard.ulcc.ac.uk> back in Aug 2000,
>I wrote:
>
>> [...] "the JANET X.25 network" these days comprises five Suns
>> connected to a Cisco router operating as a switch [...]
>
>That switch was ceremoniously turned off today, marking the true
>end of JANET X.25 service.

Dammit, Janet!
--
Molly
I don't speak for UKVoting. Hey, half the time I don't even speak for myself.

[{$D...@cyberstrider.net]

Ronan Flood <ro...@noc.ulcc.ac.uk> wrote:
> That switch was ceremoniously turned off today, marking the true
> end of JANET X.25 service.

:-(( Sad indeed.. my first foray into the 'net' was over X.25 many
many moons ago...

--
Denesh Bhabuta
Cyberstrider Limited - www.cyberstrider.net
Aexiomus Limited - www.aexiomus.net
Nominet PAB Member ; co-Chair RIPE LIR-WG

[Barry Dorrans]

<{$DB$}@cyberstrider.net> wrote in message news:1043745775.704991@cache...

> Ronan Flood <ro...@noc.ulcc.ac.uk> wrote:
> > That switch was ceremoniously turned off today, marking the true
> > end of JANET X.25 service.
>
> :-(( Sad indeed.. my first foray into the 'net' was over X.25 many
> many moons ago...

So was mine. And Ronan was in the CS department too :)

[PJML]

Some of us go back far enough to have worked on the UK's
precursor to X.25 - something known as "DL Protocol"
since it was invented at Daresbury Labs.

Ah, the joy of TCONs! CAMAC crates fitted with 4-port
serial interfaces [current-loop or RS232 according to
taste] capable of a thrilling 9600-baud if you got
lucky. DL.465.0 anybody? HASP protocol? GEC2050
workstations?

Then we moved up to GEC 4000-series packet-switches
[CPSEs] linked at speeds of up to 64Kbits/second to JANET
PSEs [JPSEs] in Bidston, Swindon, Daresbury, Rutherford,
Bath and Edinburgh. For my sins, I was involved in looking-
after the "NERC" JPSEs in Swindon [Holbrook House] and
Bidston, merseyside on a part-time basis...

Some of us have fond memories of the old BITNET trickle-
server network as well - TREARN, BLEKUL11 and TAUNIVM
were my "nearest-neighbour" nodes.

//PJML//
"I get my kicks on BID66"

[Ronan Flood]

"Barry Dorrans" <use...@idunno.org.nospam> wrote:

ISTR happening upon you and a mate sitting side by side at a pair of
terminals, both logged into the VAX and both set host/x29'd into an
off-site VAX (at Cardiff uni?) typing to each other in VMS Phone :-/

If you want another blast from the past, try telnetting to twenex.org.

[Barry Dorrans]

"Ronan Flood" <ro...@noc.ulcc.ac.uk> wrote in message
news:b15s1i$i1d$1...@canard.ulcc.ac.uk...

> ISTR happening upon you and a mate sitting side by side at a pair of
> terminals, both logged into the VAX and both set host/x29'd into an
> off-site VAX (at Cardiff uni?) typing to each other in VMS Phone :-/

Ah yes, we were trying to get a MUD up and running at Cardiff. And they gave
me more access than you ever did. Not that that stopped me much, remember
that rogue network process? 076CHAM I think the user was?

>
> If you want another blast from the past, try telnetting to twenex.org.

Hahaha TOPS/20?! I can't remember any of the commands.

[{$D...@cyberstrider.net]

Ronan Flood <ro...@noc.ulcc.ac.uk> wrote:
> off-site VAX (at Cardiff uni?) typing to each other in VMS Phone :-/

Ah - VMS Phone.. now that brings back memories. :-)

It is what caught my attention... it was my colleague (now my wife)
who introduced me to this and email, and I was hooked.