Indeed it was.

 

In that time frame I had a dual Pentium 90Mhz box w/ 128MB of RAM and a pair of 
external 340MB SCSI HDD’s striped together In addition to a pair of internal 
drives.

 

People I talked to at the time said “Wait… you have TWO CPU’s in your 
computer?? And over a _GIG_ of disk?”

 

It was my PDC, File, Print, WINS, RAS/NAT (using ISDN w/ dynamic B-channel 
bonding for up to 128KBps!) and workstation all rolled in to one. It printed to 
an Apple LaserWriter via a Daystar Digital Appletalk card (supported by NT out 
of the box!).

 

Good times.

 

-sc

 

From: Pete Howard [mailto:pchow...@yahoo.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 8:42 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: recommendations on home server

 

Wow 128mb was hardcore in 1994! /tiphat!

 

 

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From: Webster <webs...@carlwebster.com>
To: NT System Admin Issues <ntsysadmin@lyris.sunbelt-software.com> 
Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2012 8:09 AM
Subject: Re: recommendations on home server

 

IBM PC Network stuff[1].  Later I ran just about every PC based networking 
product that ever came out.  I stopped running servers when Desqview came out.  
Desqview allowed me to test my networking code without having to have a 
network.  When IBM OS/2 came out, I switched to it for all my dev work.  WIth 
8MB of RAM and a 17" monitor, I could do some amazing dev work.  In 1994, I was 
doing so much dev work I ran multiple physical servers: NetWare, NT 
3.1/3.5/3.51, OS/2 and several others.  System Commander allowed me to run 
multiple client OSs on my main dev box (dual Pentium Pro with 128MB RAM).

 

Good times back then writing Assembler, C, COBOL, multiple variants of BASIC, 
every variant of dBASE and really got into Crystal Reports dev work.

 

 

Carl Webster

Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional

http://www.CarlWebster.com <http://www.carlwebster.com/> 

 

1.  I come from an IBM Mainframe background so IBM ruled my world then.

 

From: "scaes...@caesare.com" <scaes...@caesare.com>
Subject: RE: recommendations on home server

 

Nice… what were you using to run it as a server?

 

-sc

 

From: Webster [mailto:webs...@carlwebster.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2012 7:29 AM
To: NT System Admin Issues
Subject: Re: recommendations on home server

 

I'll raise your 1994 to 1985 and my blazing fast IBM PC-AT at 6MHz with 1MB RAM 
and TWO 20MB hard drives! :)  My fellow programmers called me nuts to have so 
much RAM and storage space.

 

 

Carl Webster

Consultant and Citrix Technology Professional

http://www.CarlWebster.com <http://www.carlwebster.com/> 

 

From: "scaes...@caesare.com" <scaes...@caesare.com>
Subject: RE: recommendations on home server

 

> (I’ve been running a server at home since 2001)

 

I’ll see your 2001, and raise you a 1994.

 

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