Notices by Tom Lyon ✅ (aka_pugs@mastodon.social), page 2

Yearning for those simpler days. #SunMicrosystems

The #SunMicrosystems Network Disk protocol was a precursor to NFS that allowed block level access from diskless workstations to slices of servers' disks. These buttons were made to push awareness of the NFS solution - which was much easier to manage. #Suntember

#Suntember April 1, 1987: "Car in Pond" We erect a platform just under the water level of the pond behind #SunMicrosystems building 6, and place Bill Joy's Ferrari on it. (Along with a Manneken Pis fountain!) The "S.S. Joy" dinghy was his only access. We were kinda scared when he started the car out there.

OTD 1982: #SunMicrosystems joins #Usenet. #Suntember https://www.krsaborio.net/bsd/research/1982/0908.htm

#SunMicrosystems price list from 1982.

David Nelson, #ApolloComputers, and Bill Joy, #SunMicrosystems. From High Technology magazine, March 1987. Wowza.

#MainframeMonday Since I'm just back from Princeton reunions, today's mainframe is the IBM 360/91 - first "super" class computer in the IBM 360 family. Princeton got theirs in 1969 and ran it for about 10 years. I worked 4 years on the beast at the PUCC - but I never got to touch it! Also pictured is the console that was saved and lit up at the LCM in Seattle - along with photos of Lee Varian, Pete Olenick, and Melinda Varian - systems programmers for the PUCC.

#MainframeMonday 59 years ago this week, IBM announced the System/360 family of computers. Enormous impact on computing. And those colors! #ComputerHistory