Steven Heath writes: NSTN CyberMall and the Coffee Club might be ideas to cover, esp the 'show' the Coffee Club put on that had so many ppl I had to beat them off with a stick.
Mike Digdon says: I'm not sure about your criteria for managers, but if you've got Abe listed as a manager, [[Eric_Carroll?]] and [[Eriks_Rugelis?]] definitely were managers. Eric ran the development/network config aspect. And don't forget [[Nick_Riches?]], who ran the NOC. And don't forget Laura Kiernan(sp?)
CapnDan: I met [[Mike_Martineau?|Martineau]] at a technology fair in Halifax, he was flogging TCP/IP as the next great thing, just invented , fresh and bright and sparkly , and I pointed out (in front of some people) that it had been around for 10 or 20 years depending on what you count. And afterwards he said, "Could you drop off your resume please" :-)
libby: ...and it was all downhill from there. ;-)
CL3an: You have no idea... :)
CapnDan: I think the funnest experience was having a piece of thin ether and .. do you remember the barrel connectors for joining two pieces of thin ether together?
CL3an: Without a doubt that was the worst year of my life. Of course. The entire office was porked together on thin net.
CapnDan: We had one of those big noisy Wellfleet routers and a 19.2K Gandalf in the sculpture court, and a black and white XWindows terminal ... xwindows? is that what it was called?? X11 thing.
CL3an: Xterm none the less. :)
CapnDan: And I had started a process to load a map of Canada, one GIF at a time, on the screen, and then disconnected the thin ether.
CL3an: k...
CapnDan: So instead of a ribbon cutting ceremony with NSTN connecting the province to the world - we had a thin-ether-joining ceremony.
CL3an: gurf, this is gonna be a bad morning. two sevs so far, and the phones are ringing off the hook. LOL
CapnDan: The Premier held the two pieces of ether and joined them together and I bit my knuckle... and the graphics started loading in front of the cameras and everyone cheered.
CL3an: Ah, yes, I remember those days. :) "I sure hope this fucking works..." "Because we're gonna look like dorks if it doesn't..."
Moose: I seem to remember some fun with thinwire at a provincial library.
CapnDan: Well, I had practiced it 50 times and it was 100% reliable but Murphy is always ready to jump in.
CL3an: Yea.
Moose: mmm, duct tape and string...
CL3an: Thin sucked it. I remember we put a connection into some millitary installation in Hellifax, where I had to be escorted everywhere and they were re-doing all the cabling. I said "What are you guys doing with all this construction? He replied "Putting fiber to the desktops. We're tired of the Russians sitting in the harbour and listening to our netowrk.
CapnDan: CL3an: I am trying to put together an NSTN/ iSTar genealogy page: here is the scruffy notes: http://bonmot.ca/xni_people -- I'd like to show who worked for whom, but things changed so much from week to week that that may be a lost cause.
CL3an: I was, at the beginning, the manager of customer support. Moose, Nevin, and ... hmmm... [[Rick_Ballard?]] reported to me.
CapnDan: Rick Ballard hobby: making didgery-doo's