Today, a guy named Kyle shows up at our office to collect a Lucent Portmaster 2er. Kyle is 14 years old and he is interested in the ISP business. He emailed us a few days ago asking for donations for his plan to setup a dialup ISP.
I offered him a free Portmaster, which is a network access server / router that can connect 30 modems. Frogfoot does not use the thing anymore, but these things were pretty expensive about 3 years ago.
Off he goes with his new toy and all the cabling. I’m thinking: this will keep him busy for a few weeks. It’s not the most intuitive OS, but if he figures it out I’ll be impressed.
Then, this afternoon I get an email from him. He was mugged in the Claremont area by 4 guys and they took his Portmaster.
No, this is not a story about the DoC, Telkom, ICASA and iBurst, but it almost sounds familiar doesn’t it?
Sounds like the RIAA.
There can’t be many PM2E’s in cpt left nowadays, wonder where it will pop up for sale
Hi FB
If you can hang useless CD’s from your rear view mirror then I guess a PM2 strapped to the roof would rock.
With minor effort you could also make it a mailbox.
Not sure what else it would be useful for.
One of my ex-employers were still using one for their analogue leased-lines about two years ago. They had a spare lying on their server room floor.
Also a lesson is never to carry computer equipment around in the open.