I have met the Forum, and it is Us.

Bill Llewellyn · Post by **Bill Llewellyn** » 7 Jul 2001 8:46 pm

I have seen it with my own eyes.

According to b0b, I am the first steeler to actually see the Forum in person. I was over at his place to get some steeling guidance this afternoon (and to have fun jamming!), and before I left I asked if I could see the Forum server. It is a black, Dell PC tucked innocuously into a bedroom closet. Nearby in the same room is a synchronous DSL modem with 2-way connection speed in the mid-700kbps range, activity lights flashing away with steelers reading and posting from across the globe. What an intriguing sight, really!

Many thanks to gentleman b0b for sparing his time and passing along some steel wisdom, for jump-starting me on the B6 tuning, and for giving me a glimpse of the cyberspace home of the world's steelers. Very cool.

Bob Mainwaring · Post by **Bob Mainwaring** » 7 Jul 2001 9:56 pm

Hey - Bill and b0b------ long may it reign.

Bob.

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b0b · Post by **b0b** » 7 Jul 2001 10:17 pm

I always thought it looked pretty boring, actually. Those lights on the router never stop blinking, though.

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CrowBear Schmitt · Post by **CrowBear Schmitt** » 8 Jul 2001 11:43 am

reminds me of the Wizard of Oz,
round the end when we get to see the mad hatter behind the kontrols...
thanx for the intimacy

Steel what ?

Bill Llewellyn · Post by **Bill Llewellyn** » 8 Jul 2001 5:59 pm

Bob, boring stuff and I get along pretty well, actually. I like trains, and have a collection of VHS train tapes which comprise hours and hours of trains going by. Great for railfans, excrutiating for normal people. So seeing an array of der blinkenlights on a modem showing everybody from Santa Rosa to Munich chewing the rag on the Forum is interesing to me. But then, if I had to be around it all the time....

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Bobby Lee · Post by **Bobby Lee** » 8 Jul 2001 10:51 pm

Train tapes? Got any streetcars?

André Sommer · Post by **André Sommer** » 9 Jul 2001 8:34 am

Hey Bill,
I have a huge collection of VHS tapes on the sexlife of sea sponges !

Wanna swap?

Andre.

Bill Llewellyn · Post by **Bill Llewellyn** » 10 Jul 2001 5:27 pm

Bob, I have a video of intercity trolleys between Sacramento and nearby points (Oakland, I think). It's from 16mm film from the '50s, I think. No streetcars, unfortunately.

And I'm mostly an armchair railfan, to boot. No model trains, just videos, a rail magazine, and the occastional trip to the tracks to see a train go by....