From jkovach@mbhs.edu Sun Nov 12 13:53:35 2000 Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2000 13:29:43 -0500 (EST) From: Spaceboy To: Damon Meledones Cc: Justin Osborn , fogies@mbhs.edu Subject: Re: Calling all (former) Sysops! On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Damon Meledones wrote: > well, gee, where do I start, well, I guess the best place is the beginning > (at least as far as I am concerned).... > > I got a binx account a year before I came to blair, for some project I was > working on... freshman year, I was introduced to the sysops by gregg > brown (who moved out of state the next year), later I introduced jesse to > the group. and if I remeber correctly, there was much yelling between > keven mernick (sp?) and jesse throught the rest of the year... You remember correctly. It started in the first meeting I attended. At that time, the argument was over whether the Xstations were broken due to a bootp problem (Kevin's take) or something else (my take.) Turns out we were both right - there was a bootp problem as well as some other problem. The disagreement continued until Kevin graduated. > anyways, > believe gregg, jesse, and I were the first (?) and the last freshman > sysops, me and jesse managed to break or come close to breaking the record > for goldstars in 1 year by fixing everything from the xterms to goober to > setting up eclipse, Eclipse was a Sun 3/60 that "dropped out of the sky" into our computer lab. We got it working as an X terminal, but the monitor blew out and we eventually got rid of it during the move to the new school. > and that HPUX box we got, although I dont remember > what it was called, and I got one for fixing up the annex. It was an HP 9000/832 minicomputer called Leviathan, and it never did much. It didn't have a network card, but it had 32 serial ports. We used one of them to get it on a network using a slip link to eclipse. However, it was still useless because it had NO DNS RESOLVER (!!!!) It got lost in the move, was found in the health room a few months later with all the plastic parts smashed up, and sat in the MVHS office doing nothing. As far as I know, it's still there, although it may have been thrown out now. > we played much xtank, So much, in fact, that people complained and Mr. Hammond banned it when there were others in the lab. If they weren't allowed to play games, we couldn't either. :-( --------------------------------------+------------------ It is the chief characteristic of the | Jesse Kovach religion of science that it works. | Fixer of Things - Isaac Asimov, Foundation | jkovach@mbhs.edu --------------------------------------+------------------