Film-Tech Forum ARCHIVE: Nice New BB Location

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Posted by Greg Mueller (Member # 17) on 08-01-2000, 08:52 AM:

Brad
Your new web location is real slick. I sure like not seeing those flashing, blinking, slow down-loading advertisements.
Good Job

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Greg Mueller
Amateur Astronomer, Machinist, Filmnut

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-01-2000, 04:22 PM:

Perhaps there should be a page with nothing but slow-loading banner ads just for those people who like to go down memory lane.

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 08-01-2000, 05:53 PM:

I was trying to convince Brad to put the server on the end of a 28.8 dialup PPP line and have lots of banner ads, but he convinced me that it might be better to have multiple T1 lines instead.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 08-01-2000, 06:51 PM:

28.8???? Why the hell would you go with 28.8 when 9600 baud is good enough?

Posted by Jeff Stricker (Member # 224) on 08-01-2000, 06:58 PM:

How about an old 45 baud AP teletype newswire? That's 60 WPM!! ;-)

Posted by Trevor Bailey (Member # 75) on 08-01-2000, 07:14 PM:

Why not try a Commodore 64 with a 110 baud modem?????
I think I have one in the attic somewhere...

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 08-02-2000, 05:56 AM:

I'm still waiting for Film-Tech to lease a 45 Mbps T-3 line, so we can get those downloads of feature films and on-screen commercials (to help pay) for our digital cinema installations!

Here are two ISP examples I found on the internet.com boardwatch:
http://boardwatch.internet.com/isp/summer99/bb/terabitpg4.html
http://boardwatch.internet.com/isp/summer99/bb/qwestpg6.html

Data has a price. And your theatre needs to be near a fiber optic trunk line "backbone".

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John P. Pytlak, Senior Technical Specialist
Worldwide Technical Services, Entertainment Imaging
Eastman Kodak Company
Research Labs, Building 69, Room 7419
Rochester, New York, 14650-1922 USA
Tel: 716-477-5325 Fax: 716-722-7243
E-Mail: john.pytlak@kodak.com

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 08-02-2000, 11:05 AM:

Jeez, you guys should have seen how I used the internet 15 years ago...

It was an Apple ][e and a 300 baud modem.

I had to use "text capture" to get my first terminal program and turn it into an "exec file". It was Kermit-65. Then I used Kermit to DL another one in binary and I used that to DL one that used X-Modem.

Still, I had to know all of the AT commands by heart.

Today, I'm using ARA. It controls my modem for me. I hardly remember any commands anyore!

Posted by Scott Norwood (Member # 30) on 08-02-2000, 11:20 AM:

I vaguely remember reading about some guy who was trying to write web server software for the Apple II a few years ago... For what it's worth, we're still using some old hardware to help run film-tech: the primary DNS server (for the moment at least; it will change soon) is a 386-based PC (yes, a 386). There is also "boatanchor" which is a 10-year-old Sparcstation which is currently serving the manual control for the Apache web server, but which will eventually end up running backup DNS and mail service.

The main server that runs the web site and the forum, though, is an Intel PIII machine which is total overkill for a web server.

Posted by John Pytlak (Member # 331) on 08-02-2000, 12:53 PM:

But Scott, you'll have to upgrade for those 45 Mbps feeds of 40-Gigabyte Film-Tech feature film files.

Posted by John Walsh (Member # 168) on 08-02-2000, 03:44 PM:

Randy, I almost got you beat. I used to be on "The Source" which was an information sevice like AOL about 20 years ago. Had a Dataproducts 150 baud acoustic-coupled modem. You could chat, make airline reservations, play Star-Trek, look at stock quotes, etc. The reason I say "almost" is it didn't connect to the internet. Does anyone remember the "TV Typewriter" terminal project in Radio-Electronics magazine?

I remember thinking; "150 baud at home. It can't get any better then this....!"

Posted by Gordon McLeod (Member # 33) on 08-02-2000, 04:55 PM:

John I can remeber how advanced we felt when in my office we went out and bought a Comodore CBM and could bold type a letter

Posted by Randy Stankey (Member # 64) on 08-04-2000, 10:52 AM:

"We" didn't have internet, to speak of, unless you went to a college that had dial-up access. (Freshmen weren't allowed)

You'd have to pay for Compuserve or something called "PC Persuit". It was a "packet relay" of sorts. You'd dial in, then type in commands for BBS's and other computers in other cities. Then the "server" would open up a modem line in that city and call the remote machine for you. Now, THAT was the cat's whiskers, back in the day!

Posted by John Wilson (Member # 269) on 08-05-2000, 03:06 AM:

>>Why not try a Commodore 64 with a 110 baud modem?????
I think I have one in the attic somewhere...<<

I think everyone has one of them in the attic (and a spare to put out at yard sales...these are mandatory at yard sales).

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