@sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place
Post #2296796
2026-04-21 19:24 UTC
I’m happiest as a developer, but I’ve spent time doing what people now call devops, but we used to just call operations. I even helped look after mainframes at one point, when to get to “ultimate root” you had to use a specific hard wired terminal - and it was just a dumb terminal.
I’ve had the talk “if that light & siren goes, evacuate *immediately* because you can’t breathe Halon”
So sometimes it’s fun to do a little server work. I’m not competent outside a home lab anymore though
Replies (3)
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@sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-22 09:09
Hey I found a picture of the operator terminal I was talking about, the one that was the only place you could get “true” root access. Gotta love the cream/brown/orange colour scheme
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@aj@home.ajacks.net 2026-04-21 20:44
@sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place I remember getting the Halon talk for the first time, quite an eye opener 😂
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@ric@mastodon.qweb.co.uk 2026-04-21 22:26
@sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place I've never even heard of Halon before!