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After some time we finaly got the internet, but rather than simply pluging in one modem to one machine and either sharing it or unpluging and pluging into another machine, I decided to place the modem into a server and make it share the connection, so the first server was born.

Using a old IBM server "IBM Personal System/2 Model 80 386 (8580-071)", which i gutted and shoe horned a old intel mother board into comlete with a 266Mhz prosseor, and added as many drives as I could fit in, added a modem and installed NT4. Then using a free proxy server software we started to share the internet, it even ran microsoft exchange complete with a custom written POP3 to SMTP connector software.

As time progressed and local storage became an issue I add more drives using a scsi card and another server case (someone gave me another one of the same type, go figure), I also used this server to cut my teath on DNS, DHCP, Domain Controling, and IIS (including building an intranet, connected to a database of cd catalogs).

Also the cableing was slowly upgraded to CAT5 and as we were rewiring the house we layed network conduit in the walls and mounted network sockets (even behind the TV, which every one said "WHY THERE?", only to be proved short sited some 5 years latter)

For more info on the old IBM see http://mastodonpc.tripod.com/personal/8580-07p.html (the source for the photos as i cannot find any of mine as yet)

Last Updated (Thursday, 11 February 2010 23:59) Written by Calvin Streeting Saturday, 06 February 2010 01:23