I knew someone who started building one of the laser based units in the fall of 1990, in high school. So that's 17 or 18?
By the end of the decade or beginning of the next, we had telecom hardware companies filtering the signal to the activity LED so that you couldn't read packet info out of the flickering.
Odds are good that someone combined those ideas a lot earlier than we might like to think.
By the end of the decade or beginning of the next, we had telecom hardware companies filtering the signal to the activity LED so that you couldn't read packet info out of the flickering.
Odds are good that someone combined those ideas a lot earlier than we might like to think.