[ale] OT: Woah, retro!

[Tom Wiencko]

If memory serves, a Fossil driver was a standard serial port driver
used by BBS systems to access modems.  It provided a standard way
to talk to the various wierd modem standards of the day.


F. Grant Robertson wrote:
> 
> Reminds me of my ol' 3/60 with the 20" trinitron.  64M comprised of 8x8M DIMM's, and external _everything_.  At the time I bought it I actually convinced some guy that owned a surplus comany to self finance me for it. This was only shortly after I decided I wanted something cooler than Coherent for intel :)
> 
> Ah, the days when you actually had to _work_ to have your own unix box.. it's all so easy now. We are _all_ such geeks, as I asked Russ earlier, I'll give anyone here 10 geek cool points if they remeber what a Fossil driver was.
> 
> -G
> 
> Geek cool points not redeemable for prizes, cash value 1/10000th of 1 cent. Not valid in Tennesee, can not be combined with any other offer.
> 


-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Tom Wiencko                                              tew at wiencko.com
President - Wiencko & Associates, Inc.                    (404) 255-2330
Telecom Consulting & Project Development -- Wireline, Wireless, Internet
_______________________________________________
Ale mailing list
Ale at ale.org
http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale