I remember those days --- I think we bought cages from someone and pulled the boards out of the modems to mount them.
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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!
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Chris Adams <cma@cmadams.net>