Tom Lyon, active on Twitter and associated with DriveScale, discusses various topics including the Williams tube, Mercury delay lines, Datapoint, AppleTalk, ARCNET, Sun's Network Disk protocol, the Internet Collapse of 1986, Larry Roberts, Telenet, the history of networking technology, nerdy family background, working with the UNIX group, Enrof source code, ATM networking and IP switching, understanding a tweet, the history and approach of Nova Systems, and making servers simpler with DriveScale.
