I guarantee you, not 1% of the posters know what a Digital PDP 1100 is, especially from 1981......I started with Burroughs in 1981 supported the B1000 and later A-series Mainframes, carried a 65mb disk pack around in my car with all the software I need to support someone, if I need anything else I had Mag tapes....Digital aka DEC as I knew it and Burroughs along with a whole bunch of others don’t exist anymore...
DEC developed the RS2732 board for P2P “phone-line” transmissions. I sent my first file from Casper WY to SLC UT around September of 1983.
It was ON!
I was an IT Manager, Exec, and Director for years (the titles grew with the job).
I had a set of book shelves in one of my office areas, about 16 feet long. It’s main purposes changed as the years went by.
But the tops, end to end, became our “smithosonian”. As equipment became retired or obsolete, one of my oldest and longest-running consultants would pull some component out of the old machine before it left, and we’d pick one as a new candidate for our in office “smithsonian”. New employees in my staff and in the company in general, and guests would from time to time ask what the different items were. My admin assistant would call Walter (the old guy) and he’d relish the chance to explain the different items to folks.