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Ron Rattie • Edited

I used to walk around my Battalion in Fort Hood with a parallel zip-drive and two zip disks. One had Windows 95 and the other had all of our software. I setup everything off of that when I was configuring a new** computer. We also had a point to point RF connection for one motor pool that couldn't be wired directly... think pringles can wifi point to point for you youngsters.

Our big network file server was a Pentium Pro with 256MB of ram.

** New was a relative term and referred to hand me downs we transferred from a NASA warehouse in Houston to our Battalion property books.