Neon lights were chosen for the Speedbump logo to emphasize the sleezy, cheesy, fly-by-night nature of this server.

Welcome, to speedbump.quincy.ma.us.

Update Speedbump was upgraded today. It's no longer an old Sun 3/60 running NetBSD. In fact, it's now a pretty fast (relatively speaking) Pentium/166, with 48 megs of RAM, and a 20GB RAID array, running Linux. :-) I'm going to leave the rest of this web page as is though, for nonstalgic reasons. Speedbump was an old dinosour of a machine for a long time, hacker romance at it best. :-) September 11, 1998 -jsm

What's this all about? Well, Speedbump is a computer... an old computer, which was purchased by this demented individual, primarily so he could learn more about "real computers". It's a Sun3/60, which for those of you not intimately familiar with the Sun modem line, and to mis-use the already overused Internet/highway metaphor just one more time, is roughly the equivilent of a '72 Ford Maverick.

Anyway, once he had it set up, he found that having a UNIX box kicking around the house, connected to the 'net 24 hours a day was a pretty handy thing. It was actually possible to get it to do useful things like download and decode dirty pictures from UseNet in the middle of the night, play file server for the "!real-computers" in his place, monitor his network connection, make coffee, etc. It was therefore time for Speedbump to have it's own web page, and here it is, actually running on Speedbump itself no less, which proves that "real computers", even when they're terribly obsolete, still make good web servers!

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