1985 – Apple ][e purchased from ComputerCraft in Dallas TX
1987 – SDF-1 launched Magic City MicroBBS
1989 – Coherent UNIX / Citadel BBS on an IBM XT Turbo
1990 – attctc.dallas.tx.us ‘killer’ shutdown during Operation Sundevil.
1990 – Kodak Interactive UNIX SVR3 on i386
1991 – lonestar.org and gets a UUCP connection from smu.edu
1992 – Texas MetroNET forms and grows quickly
1993 – SDF hosts Telecom Standards Review on a 386BSD box
1994 – Receives 3B2/400 hardware from University of South Carolina
1994 – A Linux host called ‘kickme’ serves as SDF’s internet gateway
1994 – SDF gets a BLIT, Plan9 is tried and a KS10 at UW is discussed
1995 – Lucent donates a 3B2/500 and SCSI XM to SDF.
1995 – SDF hosts saomai.org and sevcom.com on NetBSD 1.0 i386
1996 – Expands to 10 dialups, ISDN provided by KESHER.NET
1996 – Joins a CyberNET Cafe project in Dallas running Linux
1996 – Telereality Associates is formed focusing on NetBSD solutions
1996 – Colocation at MALR in Lewisville Texas
1998 – Attempts a move to NetBSD from System V Unix, runs Linux
1999 – freeshell.org registered to move off of lonestar.org
1999 – Texas MetroNET sells, iczer starts Trancell
2001 – Migrates to NetBSD 1.4 on two DEC Alpha Servers AS1200
2001 – SDF Public Access TWENEX – twenex.org
2002 – SDF co-locates at NWlink in Bellevue WA
2002 – Expands to a mix of NetBSD 1.6 on DEC Alpha and Sun Sparc
2002 – SDF-EU begins in London, moves to Falkenstein Germany
2003 – Migrates to DS10Ls and is hosted by CIRR.COM in Plano TX
2003 – SDF-JP is started, though hosted in the Seattle (now Tokyo)
2010 – Migrates to x86_64 with some Alpha in Tukwila WA
2010 – Plan9 Boot Camp under NetBSD XEN pae domus
2011 – NetBSD 5.x
2012 – DEC Alpha shell servers are shutdown
2022 – Last DEC Alpha DS10L is shutdown and leaves the building
Today – NetBSD 9.x mostly in WA, TX and Germany with VMs elsewhere
Thanks to: chuq, christos, hrs, msaitoh, ryo, ebijun, eric, aaron, sp, srl, roy, cchang, jhutto, franka, mboyer, thoerpj, manu, NetBSD foundation and the community and the various SDFers over the years.