[HECnet] I'm Back!!

[Brian Hechinger]

On Dec 30, 2011, at 5:37, Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se> wrote:

The last time I was joined to HECnet was 11 years ago!!

Long time no see. :-)

It's good to be back!

Gha! I was trying to remember who might have been around back then. So that was you... I think that makes you the first place outside my own experimentation that was connected to HECnet. :-)

I believe that is correct. I don't remember anyone else being connected then.

Serial ports was my first solution. It seemed like a very easy thing to do, and it worked just fine. The only "problem" was that DECnet over asynch serial ports are slow, since they are limited to 9600 bps.
I might have run with that for at most a year before I wrote the bridge program to replace it.
I also needed physical serial ports all over the place. :-)

Yeah, it was a good first step though. Got the ball rolling. :)

-brian