Nyx, noc & nox at DU prior to move |
Darlene Cypser, Trygve Lode, Ben Goble, and Joel Cohen begin dismantling |
Computers in transit; aka the back of John Boyden's station wagon! |
John's loaded station wagon, ready to go |
Alex Hsia moves in the Exabyte tape drive |
Mark Chelap sets up arachne |
Darlene finds stale checks that were never deposited! |
Dave Denney of Dimensional helps set up our Internet service |
Trygve, Darlene, and Alex |
Mark wiring up the machines |
Modem power packs |
Alex and Rick Saltzman reconfiguring the network |
New modem rack arrangement |
Alex in charge. arachne, nyx, nox and noc lined up in front of him and mordor behind |
Mark, John, Rick, and Alex connecting the machines to the network hub |
View from 8th floor of the Women's Bank Building, our Denver location |
Trygve Lode President of Nyx.Net |
Ron Carter, Gordon Schumacher, Mike Gravitz, Chris Cypser |
Ron and John do the "Memory Shuffle" |
Gordon digs into the news server |
John Boyden and Ron boot up nyx.net |
Thor Thomas aka "Be Seeing You!" |
John, Ron and Bonnel Frost "monitor" progress |
Ron gets nyx to talk back! |
John's "work out" monitor |
Darlene Cypser calls up boot info |
Two T1's |
Behind Darlene's custom curtains lie... |
...the nyx.net logo! |
The Boulder Flat Irons |
Home of the National Center for Atmospheric Research |
Nyx is Home! |
The several thousand donors who pitched in to purchase
- 14 AT&T Dataport modems
- Annex XL terminal server
- SparcServer 10
Jill Fildey and GWL again, for a port board and other Sun parts
The two hundred or so loyal Nyx users for donating to the
fund drive for the SparcServer II (too many to
list -- but thank you all!)
Lisa Ray and USWest, for another Vax [no longer with us, though]
Cyro Lord, family, and friends at Alpha Communications for a
Telebit 2500 PEP/v.32 9600 bps modem
DU's Computing & Information Resources, for all the Vaxen
[Which were subsequently donated to Geo.
Washington HS, 6/91]
Brian Lord and Martin/Martin Associates, for a power conditioner
Trygve Lode, for a 2400 baud modem
Jim Hensley, for a 2400 baud modem so we could retire a 1200
Pyramid Technologies, for helping in a time of need
Practical Peripherals, for two v.32 9600 bps modems
The following users, for donating the cash to buy the USR
Dual Standard 9600 bps modem: Blanche Cohen and
the
local ACM, Dom Bucciarelli, Ron Carter, Garth
Courtois,
Jill Fildey, Bill Hester, Michael Hill, David
Kessner,
Trygve Lode, Mike Holmes, Dave Schneider, Tim
Wilhite,
and Jack Woehr
Eric Eastman of Telectronics, for donating 1Gb of disks
Mike Weaver of Great West Life, for donating 1Gb of disks,
a laser printer, and networking gear
Jimmy LaVita, the department Chair, for allowing the use of
the old Pyramid system for Nyx
Don McCarthy, Math/CS Operations Manager who's always willing to
fix what's broken
Dinesh Punjabi, for coding the first version of the menu system
Staff of Computing and Information Resources, for allowing the
use of their phone lines, and donating lots of
equipment
Mark Armbrust, for donating ten much needed modems
Ben Scott, for donating a much needed modem, helping us go multi-line
Zimmerman Metals, for donating the orignal hardware (a PDP 11/70)
And many others.....
to Andrew Burt, Founder and System Administrator Emeritus of Nyx, without whom Nyx would never have existed.