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LaF0rge<p>on my way to Munich today. In the odd case that anyone local in my timeline feels like meeting up tonight, let me know.<br>For the curious: Reason for the visit is to inspect and backup a Siemens EWSD exchange and plan logistics of its upcoming move to the Dresden telecommunications museum. <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/munich" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>munich</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/telecomhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>telecomhistory</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retronetworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retronetworking</span></a></p>
Regionales Retro-Rechenzentrum<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://infosec.space/@kkarhan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kkarhan</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Gammitin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>Gammitin</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.scot/@rasteri" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rasteri</span></a></span> It may look similar to PCI-X, but the ASUS TR-​DLS (which powers the HP TC3100) has “only” 64 bit PCI, 66 MHz (~ 533 MB/s peak).</p><p>Still beefy, but aside from quad-/hexa-port Gigabit cards and some SCSI RAID cards, there’s not much that can benefit from it.</p><p>Sadly I’m not aware of a 10 GbE card for PCI 64/66. And no retro-tinkerer yet built a Realtek RTL8157 (5 GBit/s) or RTL8159 (10 GBit/s) with PCI 64/66 … would be a great addition to late Pentium 3 &amp; early Opteron class machines, as it would match the bus’s max speed.</p><p><a href="https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/asus-tr-dls" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theretroweb.com/motherboards/s</span><span class="invisible">/asus-tr-dls</span></a></p><p><a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/retronetworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retronetworking</span></a> <a href="https://freiburg.social/tags/retroserving" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retroserving</span></a></p>
Hans Hübner<p>These folks from Italy found a VAXstation II that had Videotel BBS software on it and resurrected it. <a href="https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/a-videotel-bbs-server-resurfaces-from-a-dec-vaxstation-ii.1253693/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">forum.vcfed.org/index.php?thre</span><span class="invisible">ads/a-videotel-bbs-server-resurfaces-from-a-dec-vaxstation-ii.1253693/</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retronetworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retronetworking</span></a></p>
LaF0rge<p>I just stumbled over this article about the history of video telephony: <a href="https://mashable.com/archive/videophone-turns-50" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mashable.com/archive/videophon</span><span class="invisible">e-turns-50</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retronetworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retronetworking</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/telecommunications" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>telecommunications</span></a></p>
Ety, Ringer of Bells ^G<p>I really want to get this <a href="https://hive.institute/tags/Force10" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Force10</span></a> C300 switch into the <a href="https://hive.institute/tags/HomeLab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HomeLab</span></a> to play with, but the thing is so damn heavy. Its lived on this cart for like four years now because moving it anywhere else is too arduous.</p><p>On top of that is some <a href="https://hive.institute/tags/Avaya" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Avaya</span></a> <a href="https://hive.institute/tags/IPOffice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IPOffice</span></a> gear, though, and we will definitely be connecting that up to the telephony lab.</p><p><a href="https://hive.institute/tags/RetroNetworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroNetworking</span></a></p>
CCC event ISDN/PSTN network<p>What would <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retronetworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retronetworking</span></a> with Modems, fax machines, ISDN, SDH and more be without the contemporary marketing materials... now reprinted as post cards, at the retronetworking assembly, part of the vintage cluster <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/38c3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>38c3</span></a>. Close to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://chaos.social/@ChaosPost" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ChaosPost</span></a></span> with other post cards...</p>
CCC event ISDN/PSTN network<p>Make sure to bring your modems, fax machines, ISDN terminal adapters, phones, BTX terminals, Minitel, video phones and other <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retronetworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retronetworking</span></a> gear to <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/38C3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>38C3</span></a> and get connected to the on-site <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ISDN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ISDN</span></a> network. More information at <a href="https://isdn-museum.de/ccc" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">isdn-museum.de/ccc</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
LaF0rge<p>Teardown of a 1989 USRobotics Courier HST <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/Modem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Modem</span></a>: <a href="https://osmocom.org/projects/retronetworking/wiki/US_Robotics_Courier_HST" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">osmocom.org/projects/retronetw</span><span class="invisible">orking/wiki/US_Robotics_Courier_HST</span></a> - when modem still had discrete DSPs and ADCs, prior to Rockwell + other chipsets... <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retronetworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retronetworking</span></a></p>
LaF0rge<p>TIL: The second "A" in the name of the historical French telecom supplier ALCATEL actually stands for atomique (nuclear): "Société Alsacienne de Constructions Atomiques, de Télécommunications et d'Électronique" <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retronetworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retronetworking</span></a></p>
LaF0rge<p>Latest <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retronetworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retronetworking</span></a> acquisition: One of the first commercially available <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/ISDN" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ISDN</span></a> video telephones (this unit built in 1992, but I think the model is available 2-3 years longer). Apparently the "Telekom Bildtel 001" was built around a LOEWE MultiTel TV10 BTX terminal, plus an AEG/OLYMPIA codec unit and a TV camera.</p>
LaF0rge<p>ROTFL: There actually is/was medication that they called ISDN (Isosorbid dinitrat): <a href="https://cdn.shop-apotheke.com/images/D02/747/140/D02747140-p12.jpg" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cdn.shop-apotheke.com/images/D</span><span class="invisible">02/747/140/D02747140-p12.jpg</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/isdn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>isdn</span></a> <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/retronetworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retronetworking</span></a></p>
dialup.world<p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/introductions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>introductions</span></a> We cobbled together a free-to-use dialup ISP out of trash and spare parts. dialup.world is composed of four modems for simultaneous connections delivering speeds up to 33.6K.</p><p>This is currently a bunch of USR Sportsters hooked into Linux, but we are currently working on setups with Cisco gear, as well as some musings in 56K, other weird dialup appliances, and retro networking.</p><p>We also supply dialup access to the WebTV Redialed project (<a href="http://webtv.zone/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="">webtv.zone/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>) which means if you dig your WebTV out of storage and hook it into a phone line, it *just works* with no modification needed on your part!</p><p>I invite you to watch our bad ideas become reality.</p><p><a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/modems" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>modems</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/dialup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dialup</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/retronetworking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>retronetworking</span></a> <a href="https://oldbytes.space/tags/webtv" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webtv</span></a></p>
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