I got my Sysadmin Magazine CD Today

When Sysadmin Magazine closed their doors, they decided to send out their complete publication on CD to all the subscribers.

Mine arrived today. It's pretty neat. The first issue was May/June 1992. I was 11. Some of these ancient articles are awesome looking. A Community-Style Overnight Job Spooler starts off with:

For a small business running a single multi-user UNIX system, processes typically fall into one of two categories: real-time, interactive programs or batch style/background jobs. Interactive programs such as the system shell, editors/word processors, spreadsheets, and data entry systems all vie concurrently for slices of the CPU pie.

Wow. I guess they didn't use screen and vim back then :) You wouldn't want to overwhelm the CPU with a s///.

When I was old enough to get my drivers license (1997), and article entitled New Storage Interfaces states:

Interesting things are occurring with storage technology including the cost per megabyte (MB) dropping, faster drives, and higher bandwidths.

Hah, cost per megabyte.

I wonder what other gems I'll find in here? I've copied it to my hard drive (thanks to the dropping cost per megabyte), so I imagine spotlight will start returning insights into the past.

I shouldn't poke too much fun. I remember when we ran our mutli million dollar website on a 400mhz server with three 36GB SCSI drives and 512MB of memory. We were awesome because it was a $4,000 PC and not a $12,000 Sun box. It was a 4U rackmount chassis that was basically a tower flipped on its side.