Time4aNAP
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Des Plaines, IL | reply to dave
Re: Us old timers have seen it all ...
LOL They didn't call IBM "Big Blue" for nothing!  |
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dave
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said by Time4aNAP  :SNA? Well, as it happens, I was a member of the software team that built various DECnet/SNA Gateway products...
(And IBM channel cables make original ethernet wires look positively skinny. I like to bore people with tales of taking a hacksaw to a VAX in order to get an IBM channel interface installed...) |
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Time4aNAP
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Des Plaines, IL | reply to scooper
Seen ARCNET? SNA? |
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scooper
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Youngsville, NC | reply to dave
Re: Us old timers have seen it all ...
Yes - my first home network used 10B2 - at work, my first exposure was to the Vampire taps  |
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dave
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not in ohio | reply to DHRacer
Ah, right. I didn't recognize the abbreviation (at DEC, we always spelled it out: 10base2). |
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MrMoody
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Smithfield, NC | reply to DHRacer
Ah, the Yellow Garden Hose! I've only ever seen that at a university. I had thinnet myself though, hooked up to play multiplayer Doom II ... fun days. |
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DHRacer
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Lake Arrowhead, CA | reply to dave
He says 10B2, which was the Thinnet which used BNC connectors prevailingly.
It was 10B5 that used the thick cables that required vampire taps. |
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dave
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not in ohio | reply to scooper
Which coax?
The thick one with the vampire taps, or the daisy-chained cheapernet? |
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scooper
join:2000-07-11
Youngsville, NC | I've been around networking long enough that my HOME network was the coax variety of ethernet (10B2)! I've also worked with Token Ring, as well as UTP. |
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