On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 21:45:47 GMT, B A R R Y
wrote:

On Sun, 10 Sep 2006 17:36:12 -0400, "Roger (K8RI)"
wrote:


When I had ISDN and then DSL my Internet bill would have paid for a
lot more flying than that and in a high performance retract to boot!

My first dedicated line (non-dial) work at home setup was a 2B+D ISDN
setup, then an $800/month 4 wire HDSL dedicated T1. The T1 was
cheaper in actual use!

Now it's a $19.95/month ADSL connection.

The first home router was a $2500+ Cisco bought with a purchase order
and a Dilbert-ese ordering process. The LAN port was 10 meg, and I
needed an additional $500 hub to connect more computers.

Five port 100 baseT hub is now about twenty bucks.

I bought my
current ADSL router, complete with (4) onboard 100/meg ports for $69

Mine was a tad more than that (but not by much). I'm running a
gigabit network through a five port switch.

at my local Staples.

Ahhh yes... :-))

My first computer (OSI C2-8P) with dual 8" floppies is still down in
the basement. Thing cost $4,000 in 1979. I think I could build a state
of the art 64 bit dual core processor, PCI express video, dual 700 Gig
SATA HDs and at least a 20" LCD monitor for half that or less. With
the equivalent of that C2-8P in today's dollars I could build up four
bleeding edge technology machines with multiple monitors and have
money left over.


Ain't technology grand? G

Where's my G1000...

Mine's at the dealers where it'll probably stay as I can't justify the
current value of the airplane in new avionics. sigh

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com