It’s a nice day. Work is in a hurry-up-and-wait phase. Let’s try getting AppleTalk running over barbed wire again!
#LiveLaughLocalTalk
#GlobalTalk
#RetroComputing
This time round I’ve hacked a phone cable in half and soldered alligator clips to the other sides so we get a decent connection to the fence. #LiveLaughLocalTalk #GlobalTalk #RetroComputing
Green on top. Yellow on bottom. Let’s turn on the ups and see if it’ll work!
Blinky lights are blinking…

IT WORKS! AppleTalk over barbed wire fence is a go! :D
#LiveLaughLocalTalk
#GlobalTalk
#RetroComputing

#FieldTalk

@billgoats at first look I thought at the machines are powerered by an electric fence
@inlovewithpda if only! That’d make the whole setup a lot more workable than the 7 minutes I get out of the small old UPS here.
@billgoats *patiently awaits the infosec.exchange cabal to arrive with critical insights*
* "leaving your barbed wire exposed like that is a security risk"
* "open pasture architecture like this is why my job is more difficult than it needs to be"
* "localtalk is known not to scale beyond three furlongs why even do this"
@vga256 Just wait until I manage to get it onto GlobalTalk and turn my barbed wire fence into a worldwide security risk 💁
@billgoats we're courting disaster! we need a globaltalk policy framework to keep bad actors like you out of the network!
@vga256 aNyBoDy could just clip on and print to the various ImageWriters! AnYbOdY!!!!
@billgoats THIS is exactly the kind of rogue imprinting that spells doom!