Our Scrapbook (The Ghost of Interop Past)

The Beginning

In the beginning there was the TCP/IP Interoperability Conference:

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We moved from Monterey, California to Crystal City, Virginia, to Santa Clara, California, and then to San Jose California.

The 1988 Santa Clara network had a single group of routers in the middle of the convention center.

By 1989 we felt that we had built the ultimate network.

• Planning had been developed to a fine art (and usually done lounging in the Sun of Santa Cruz, California)

• Many fine dinners were had by all.

• We had learned to build 10-Base-T cables and run wire through places where wire was never intended to go.

• We entered the convention center with nothing but spools of yellow hose, Ethernet terminators, and only 8 hours to do the job. How did Peter de Vries talk us into this?

• A fearless volunteer.

• Ole, Valerie, and Dr. SNMP.

• Dave Bridgham after a hard day's work.

• We had secret romance!

• And visitors from afar (Adelaide, Australia)

• We were exhausted!

We also gave tours.  Here are the various pages of our 1993 tour handout:

• Cover
• Page 1
• Page 2
• Page 3
• Page 4

Our biggest network to date was Las Vegas, 1994