8-bitters and multi-whatever

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 12 September 2007 15:08, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> Roy J. Tellason wrote:
> >>> I know of ARCnet,  went to a short seminar on that once at a trade
> >>> show, and in fact even have a couple of ISA cards around here
> >>> someplace, though I don't forsee me ever using them.
> >>
> >> ARCnet and most of the 'nets were in the price range of a hard disk
> >> then. Also the whole idea of networking was new.  For example in 1982
> >> the two largest networks I knew of were DEC (internal) and
> >> Dupont(internal) and they were around 50 nodes!
> >
> > I remember those days,  thinking of 50 nodes as being pretty good-sized. 
> > :-)
>
> IBM's internal network was significantly larger than that by '82.  8-)

Of that I have no doubt!   :-)

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