I remember those days --- I think we bought cages from someone and pulled the boards out of the modems to mount them. -----Original Message----- From: "Chris Adams" <cma@cmadams.net> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2024 1:30pm To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: "Hypothetical" Datacenter Overheating Once upon a time, Izaac <izaac@setec.org> said:
On Tue, Jan 16, 2024 at 08:37:09AM -0800, Warren Kumari wrote:
ISP/Colo provider
The good ole days. When one stacked modems with two pencils in between them and box fans blew through the gaps.
The back-room ISP I started at was at least owned by a company with their own small machine shop, so we had them make plates we could mount two Sportsters (sans top) to and slide them into card cages. 20 modems in a 5U cage! -- Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>