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When Dave Boggs was digging around in the box of prototype Ethernet gear my heart skipped a little. I sure hope all of that gear ends up in a museum eventually.

When Dave Boggs was digging around in the box of prototype Ethernet gear my heart skipped a little. I sure hope all of that gear ends up in a museum eventually. While my rational mind knows that there's nothing inherently special about the items in that box I'm not able to completely squelch the irrational part of my mind that's screaming "Holy artifacts!"

agumonkey 10y ago
Well your irrationality got me to watch it. I hope you're happy ;)
- EvanAnderson 10y ago
  I got a crazy feeling of irrational exuberance when I visited the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. I called a friend to tell him "I kid you not-- I am standing here looking at _the_ Utah Teapot." Getting a chance to see these early Ethernet devices would probably evoke similar oddly irrational (albeit pleasant) feelings.
  - agumonkey 10y ago
    Heh, I wonder how I'd react in front of this teapot, I was a CG head for many years. I'm not sure electronics would throw me off like that. Even though I got depressed for missing a Grid Laptop on an auction. I've exhausted that feeling since I think. But, spirits of times, still does affect me. It's like an invisible book, I'm sure I'd love to walk between big IBM mainframes, and consoles. I digress, I recently went to a flea market. And I took a time travelling slap in the face. I may be jaded by cult historical electronics, but seeing 18th furnitures, 19th tech of the day, magazines. It did something to me that is above the best VR today.
    - cr0sh 10y ago
      My biggest "miss" was not getting the winning bid for a VPL Dataglove on Ebay (I like to collect "vintage" VR artifacts). That said, my greatest coup was finding an Altair 8800 at a local electronics salvage yard and only paying $100.00 for it.
  - cr0sh 10y ago
    Yeah - I went there last year with my wife and spent a long time wandering around. A few highlights for me: Sitting in one of google's newer self-driving cars and checking out stuff. Watching a demo of the Difference Engine #2 being cranked for a calculation (side note - there was a great angle to get a picture of it, and beyond it, a Cray Supercomputer). ...and the real highlight (for me) was getting to see the SRI Shakey robot up-close; all I had ever known before was pictures in books and magazines (and had only recently found some PDF scans of some of the original research papers on the project).
walrus01 10y ago
<indianajones> It belongs in a museum! </indianajones> http://www.livingcomputers.org/ http://www.livingcomputers.org/
mrbill 10y ago
A friend of a friend sold his company and used some of the proceeds to collect various nerdy things. One of which was a successor to the original Arpanet IMPs. I got to see it sitting on a pallet in a warehouse (with other cool stuff) in 2001 :) I got to go to the Smithsonian museums as a kid in high school and my mom just shook her head when all I wanted to do was skip straight to the part with bits of ENIAC so I could take some pictures..

agumonkey 10y ago

Well your irrationality got me to watch it. I hope you're happy ;)

EvanAnderson 10y ago
I got a crazy feeling of irrational exuberance when I visited the Computer History Museum in Mountain View. I called a friend to tell him "I kid you not-- I am standing here looking at _the_ Utah Teapot." Getting a chance to see these early Ethernet devices would probably evoke similar oddly irrational (albeit pleasant) feelings.
- agumonkey 10y ago
  Heh, I wonder how I'd react in front of this teapot, I was a CG head for many years. I'm not sure electronics would throw me off like that. Even though I got depressed for missing a Grid Laptop on an auction. I've exhausted that feeling since I think. But, spirits of times, still does affect me. It's like an invisible book, I'm sure I'd love to walk between big IBM mainframes, and consoles. I digress, I recently went to a flea market. And I took a time travelling slap in the face. I may be jaded by cult historical electronics, but seeing 18th furnitures, 19th tech of the day, magazines. It did something to me that is above the best VR today.
  - cr0sh 10y ago
    My biggest "miss" was not getting the winning bid for a VPL Dataglove on Ebay (I like to collect "vintage" VR artifacts). That said, my greatest coup was finding an Altair 8800 at a local electronics salvage yard and only paying $100.00 for it.
- cr0sh 10y ago
  Yeah - I went there last year with my wife and spent a long time wandering around. A few highlights for me: Sitting in one of google's newer self-driving cars and checking out stuff. Watching a demo of the Difference Engine #2 being cranked for a calculation (side note - there was a great angle to get a picture of it, and beyond it, a Cray Supercomputer). ...and the real highlight (for me) was getting to see the SRI Shakey robot up-close; all I had ever known before was pictures in books and magazines (and had only recently found some PDF scans of some of the original research papers on the project).

walrus01 10y ago

<indianajones> It belongs in a museum! </indianajones> http://www.livingcomputers.org/ http://www.livingcomputers.org/

mrbill 10y ago

A friend of a friend sold his company and used some of the proceeds to collect various nerdy things. One of which was a successor to the original Arpanet IMPs. I got to see it sitting on a pallet in a warehouse (with other cool stuff) in 2001 :) I got to go to the Smithsonian museums as a kid in high school and my mom just shook her head when all I wanted to do was skip straight to the part with bits of ENIAC so I could take some pictures..