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Most 16-year-olds don't have servers in their rooms (varun.ch)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

he, reminds me of coding up a bbs, or using the main players (MBBS/wildcat) and cramming as many modems into a box as i could get assigned by irq.

i miss this application called telix.. it ( a term emulator) had this great language called SALT you could do a lot of telcom stuff with before the interwebs. the salt manual was one of the first programming books i purchased.

ive got a few of these old servers lying around with dozens/hundreds of GBs of ram.. but my kids dont give a shit. i think it skips a generation.

those machines are kind of expensive to run 24/7. electricity for me is not cheap.