[wellylug] [Fwd: Govt guidance would guarantee our geek credentials (Green Party media release)]

[Ian Beardslee]

-----Original Message-----
From: David Antliff 

> On Fri, 9 Jul 2004, Ian Beardslee wrote:
> >
> > I used Pegasus many years ago connecting to Mercury (also by David)
> > running on a Netware 3.12 server (ahh those were the days :-)
> 
> Getting it running on Netware 4.11 and integrating it with UUCP was fun
> too :)

Our netware 3.12 server (I eventually upgraded it to 4.10) was connecting 
to a UNIXWARE server running UUCP on it, connecting via a 14.4 modem to 
Netlink.  There was a case of mild 'amusement' when a student tried to 
send themselves (at home) a zipped copy of their Visual Basic directory - 
I think they were trying to avoid buying a copy for themselves - oh, the 
innocence.

> The closest I'd got to Linux in those days was a multi-CD case with
> a picture of a cartoon alien on it sitting next to our UUCP gateway. I
> did install slackware from it once.

I remember being 'hauled' out of one my classes (first year CBC) by the 
network supervisor at the time to kill a print job that he had spitting 
out from the unix server :-)  I think that is what triggered my interest 
in the *nixes - cool a 'mere' student one up on one of the staff.
 
> I quite enjoyed managing a Netware installation - I still think NDS was
> pretty cool, although it was a bit buggy in parts. However Win95 and
> Novell Client32 gave me months of headaches.

Yes, by the time we looked at win95 working with netware but we ended up 
going for Citrix Winframe.  At that time started to reduce our reliance on 
netware - Citrix worked better with MS :-( and the licencing costs for 
another netware upgrade and another 50 users was just too ugly.

Anyway I think that is enough memories from me :-)