[ih] Internet Talk Radio

[Karl Auerbach]

Ah I have not seen that video before.  (I missed most of the Paris shows 
because I was busy trying to figure out how to redeploy an existing 
constellation of Russian low earth orbit satellites with newer 
satellites with on-board, hardened Sun SPARC processors routing IP 
packets between the satellites. I can't say whether I was bothered or 
whether I was pleased by not going to a launch in the middle of the 
desert in Kazakhstan.)

About all I remember about the Paris shows that I did go to were that 
the convention space had really low ceilings and that we bought a 
hundred kilos of really high end chocolates - it was something like 
$10,000 - in 1990's dollars - of magnificent chocolate.)

I notice Simon Hackett in the video with the internet juke box - we had 
that thing in the carriage house of the Victorian house occupied by TGV 
in Santa Cruz (and later my company's office spaces.)  It was very 
annoying when Simon, in Adelaide, changed what we were listening to in 
Santa Cruz as well as the sound level.

I think we used that carriage house to do some testing of Simon's 
Internet toaster.

Here's a link to a photo of Simon from that era... 
https://www.cavebear.com/archive/interop/simon.gif

(My SNMP code was used in both the John Romkey and the Hackett Internet 
toasters.  By-the-way, John R. mentioned that he still has that toaster 
[but not the control unit].)  Both Internet toasters used Sunbeam 
Radiant toasters (because they would lower the bread into the slots when 
power was applied and lift the bread out when power was discontinued.)

By-the-way, Simon (and I think perhaps Stuart Vance) built the first 
portable Internet telephones in that same carriage house in Santa Cruz.  
We called 'em Etherphones and they made it onto one of Epilogue 
Technology's cool T-shirts, I'll have to take a photograph and post it.

Simon had a story of how he got into the telco business.....  He was 
running a radio based ISP service from the top of the highest building 
in Adelaide.  But he wanted to run a cable across the city street at the 
base of the building.  The authorities said "no, you must be a telco to 
have the right to rip up streets and run cables."  So Simon went through 
the paperwork to become an official, government recognized telco - so he 
could run some cable under the street.  Thus the start, I believe, of 
Internode.

         --karl--

On 7/22/26 11:17 PM, Jack Haverty wrote:
> On 7/22/26 18:10, Karl Auerbach wrote:
>> I'm not sure which "Interop Movie" you mean.
> This one:
>
> https://archive.org/details/interop_france_1992
>