XKL TOAD

[Johnny Billquist]

Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:

> On Jan 13, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
>>> >>    And one is in the possession of my acquaintance Peter Lothberg,
>>> >> unless that's who you're talking about in the last paragraph.  (he
>>> >> has done a lot of work for Cisco)
>> >
>> > Mm-hmm.
>> >
>> > He was one of cisco's first customers in Europe.  His friend, the
>> > owner of XKL, co-founded cisco Systems.  Notice that I didn't use
>> > *anyone's* name who has not made ownership of a Toad-1 public
>> > knowledge.
> 
>    As far as I'm aware, it is public knowledge.  At least he never  
> treated it as much of a secret.

A shortie on Peter. You can see parts of his PDP-10 collection here:
http://www.stupi.se/Bilder/pdp-10/index.html

Stupi is Peter's company where he do some fun stuff.

I don't think his Toad is on right now, but he have an SC30 that is.

 > ncp tell sol sho exec

Node summary as of 14-JAN-09 10:41:34

Executor node = 59.10 (SOL)

    Identification = Systems Concepts SF CA USA - SC30M - DN-20 4.0
    State = On, Active links = 0

 > ncp tell toad1 sho exec
NCP -- Show failed, Listener connect failed, node unreachable

And I'm not aware that it's a kept secret either. But then again, Peter 
is not exactly the guy who walks around boasting about it either.

	Johnny