Trip down memory lane offers unexpected twists and turns
Paul Hoffman, director of the VPN Consortium and an IETF regular, recently posted an item to his private blog that begins:
Some early Cisco hardware
I recently received the technical specs and schematics for the Cisco model 9A5. The Internet community might benefit from seeing the internals of this hardware, and I didn’t see them online anywhere else. The hardware certainly seems more primitive than I would have expected from Cisco.
You can see the specs and schematics here.
After checking them out myself, I was curious enough about the 9A5’s history to do a little online searching and came across this newsletter (.pdf) account that begins days after Charles Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight and rolls right on through post-World War II America’s love affair with the automobile. (You’ll need to scroll down to Page 7 of the .pdf to an article written by Marv Beeferman.)
What? You say Cisco wasn’t even around back then?
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