avianauthor

The current bid is $4800 with the auction ending Tuesday around 11am eastern.

This is the Author. I was actually sent one about 8 years ago, anonymously. It had a tiny packet on the leg, which I decoded to reveal the sender's contact info.

Please bid! Fund my eventual retirement :-)

I was at CMU '83 to '87. It saved us time to check if there was the proper kind of coke in the machine and if it was cold before we walked down to the room with the machine. It was cheaper than the University's vending machines. And it was in classy glass bottles.

Trivia: It was (I was told) using experimental 3Mbps Ethernet, the predecessor to the 10Mbps Ethernet that has grown to 10Gpbs+ now.

I am very (too) proud to have written Dr. Postel's favorite RFC.

-david waitzman author rfc1149 and rfc2549

To LinuxBender: RFC2549 also clarified the key words: MUST Usually. MUST NOT Usually not. SHOULD Only when Marketing insists. MAY Only if it doesn't cost extra.