Ben drove his greasecar all the way out to Dayton on Straight Vegetable Oil power. Brad had been putting off giving the 2600 crew an article for almost six months. |
Right after we bought the Sun 3/180 for $20, the former owner realized he wanted the rack it was in and bought it back from us for $30. It never booted quite right. The diag lights said something about a "memory path failure". |
The amazing Crisco kid and his SVOPWRD greasemobile. Diesel Mercedes, it turns out, make great greasecars. | |||||||||
Ben has more tubes for vacuum logic in his Mercedes than ENIAC. |
Brad's first attempt at printed circuit board construction is a success. |
Amateur radio operators have their own satellites. Unfortunately none of them run NetBSD. Yet. | |||||||||
Ben and Kurt decide to refrain from dumping their atomic waste in Vermont |
Our first NetBSD machine was a SPARCstation IPX named Azrael. Azrael came stock with a 40MHz CPU which we upgraded to 80MHz and an 8KHz uLaw audio device. Playing mp3s on it over the NFS was fun. |
Ben at Wayne State University | |||||||||
Somehow this clothing looks completely natural on Ben. |
Ben's old room, in his parent's house. This is even before we got the apartment. |
Bernie with Brad's article -- although at this point, he has no idea what's in the envelope and just thinks we're a couple of loonies with a camera. | |||||||||
Brad working on the unix machine he'd convinced a freelance client to install for multiplatform printer sharing right before Al's dog ripped it off the table and smashed it's faceplate. |
Fixing Monolith in the old apartment. |
The rfc791.ORG tour bus, complete with N8VI antenna array. This puppy has a diesel engine that will soon be running on waste restaurant grease. And somewhere in it I'll find a place for a unix machine. | |||||||||
Detroit may generate tons of light pollution, but it sure looks neat from seven stories up. |
Ben strikes a dam pose following his dam climb |
If you're ever connected to Echolink node #99846, the WW8GM repeater, this is what the machine looks like. | |||||||||
Once Brad had a lot of hair. And once Jolt Cola used to come in plastic bottles. |
Ben giving jumpdomain.com, our ex-registrar, a good reason to give us back our domain name. |
This place in New York called "Burgers and Cupcakes" gave us free cakes for being patriotic. | |||||||||
This was going to be the wallpaper on the computers of one of our bosses. Damn salespeople selling damn warranties. |
Life was simple then. Paychecks were small too. |
After the store closed, all the red shirts came off. | |||||||||
This is before Joe got the scanner antenna on his roof. And no, that's not really Joe's license plate. |
Joe works on the previous incarnation of Dylan in the Madison Heights server room. |
Internet videoconferencing is way more fun if you have a giant video projector. Of course, it might have helped if we had a screen, rather than projecting on this panelled wall. | |||||||||
192 bottles of jolt from store with broken refrigerator: $69.12 Enough caffeine to code for a straight month: priceless |
John Bowers (KC8ZZP, administrator of one of our DNSes) looks on as Brad logs a contact with a Californian station. |
Matt undergoes the initiation and becomes the most remotely located rfc791.ORG member | |||||||||
This game was a very simple hack. It's all about tricking the light sensor. And we all know BSD is the real winner anyway. |
There is a small possibility that we're not supposed to be here ... |
Jeff and Brad installing the clamps to hold the new WW8GM repeater antenna on top of the Ren Cen. Behind us you can see Casino Windsor. | |||||||||
Walter does a little RTFM on his new handheld. The following day I hear he passed his ham radio technician exam. Congratulations, Walter! |
The window in the background is Brad's attempt to communicate with our website's anonymous users. The window in the foreground was the expected result. We never got a response from this guy ... |
Ben shows the Woz the T-shirt he picked up at Hope | |||||||||
I think Joe is trying to fly ... |
Ben buys a stylish T-shirt from the 2600 crew at Dayton |
We shouldn't have parking ticket inquiry records for some town out East ... fortunately it's in a format we can't read ... | |||||||||
The new rfc791.ORG network architechture complete with a single hop link between the Sterling Heights and Madison Heights LANs. |
The rfc791.ORG tour bus stops to admire the scenery in Newfane, VT |
Brad, on the road in Vermont, tells Chuck in Detroit via HF, which satellite pass to look for him on. | |||||||||
Brad checks in to the W1AW repeater while passing through Hartford. |
Brad borrows Internet on Tanglewood Island from someone on shore 0.8 miles away using one of our 24dBi 2.4GHz antennas. You can barely get DSL that far from the CO. |
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