And indeed that’s how I got started, temporarily borrowing hardware from my workplace and cobbling it together in my cramped apartment: beige Cisco routers, swi

And indeed that’s how I got started, temporarily borrowing hardware from my workplace and cobbling it together in my cramped apartment: beige Cisco routers, switches and hubs, sun3 and sun4 hardware, a microVAX II, etc etc. I luckily had a mentor that let me bend the rules and bring stuff home. If you are a mentor you should also bend the rules for noobs.