Acoustic Coupler Modems
The Radio Shack PT-210 was a portable terminal. It connected to a minicomputer or mainframe via an acoustic coupler modem. Rather than a video output, the terminal printed out on a roll of thermal paper. This device enabled remote access to “big-iron” enterprise systems.
Tweaking the theme…
Tweaking the theme of this poor, neglected, website. Tweaking the theme I moved seashell-software.com from my Raspberry Pi 3 here in my home office over to Siteground. My friend J.D. turned me on to Siteground a couple of years ago. So, I moved NOLA History Guy there....
WordPress vs. Drupal – Krewe de Tech Presentation
WordPress vs. Drupal WordPress vs. Drupal Here's the PowerPoint from the 23-April talk: drupal_vs_wordpress
Next @HitachiVantara class: G1000 Storage Array Installation and Configuration
G1000 Storage Array Install/Config G1000 Storage Array My next class for Hitachi Vantara is THI2526 - Installing, Configuring and Maintaining Hitachi Virtual Storage Platform G1x00 and F1500, from 8-April to 12-April, in Columbus, OH. This class is a "hardware"...
Krewe de Tech!
(cross-posted to NOLA Linux) Last night's talk at the Krewe de Tech meeting Technical Talks Thanks to the Krewe de Tech computer club for having me over last night. It was fun to get out and talk tech at a more consumer level. As much as I enjoy the Enterprise Storage...
Teaching the Unified Compute Platform
Most of the computer classes I've taught over the years involve presenting a series of related subjects, one usually building on the skills of the next. The class on the Unified Compute Platform I just wrapped up yesterday for Hitachi Data Systems (HDS) was a bit...
Hitachi Data Systems’ Unified Compute Platform
I'm wrapping up a class this week that covers the HDS converged platforms. They call the product the "Unified Compute Platform". It's fun stuff. Ever since VMware became a thing for enterprise server virtualization, Hitachi's been there, selling the Compute Blade...
Teaching “old” hardware (HDS Academy – THI1997)
I taught the Installation/Configuration class for HDS Virtual Storage Platform enterprise array this past week. The VSP was HDS' primary enterprise storage array from October, 2010 to May, 2014. It was refreshed last year by the VSP-G1000. The first time I taught this...
Edward Branley
Principal, seashell software