Date   : Tue, 06 Jul 2010 23:01:16 +0100
From   : tim.fardell@... (Tim Fardell)
Subject: Ancient network standards

Pete Turnbull wrote:
> On 06/07/2010 07:45, Rob wrote:
>> On 6 July 2010 05:01, paul aslin <station240@...> wrote:
>>> I've been looking for a hub that has 10 base 2 and 10/100 cat5 sockets. Even
>>> on ebay non one is selling anything that old. Plus I'd still need 50ohm
>>> cables and terminators, Its all so I can connect the A420/1's AKA25 podule
>>> to the rest of the network for easier file transfer.
> 
> You'd be better with an AUI-to-10baseT adapter.  And it would most 
> likely be a switch rather than a hub.
> 
>>> I'll ask on the Acorn network group what an AUI adapter for cat5 is, if my
>>> memory is correct I won't like the answer.
>> I've even got one of these, somewhere.  Also available if you want it,
>> assuming I can find it. No idea if it will work on acorn kit, mind -
>> it was last used on an early '90s Motorola Unix machine!
> 
> IIRC you need to set some links on an Acorn AKA25 to use the AUI 
> connector instead of the 10base2 coax connector.  The adaptors are very 
> standard, and any AUI-to-10bT should work fine.  If Rob can't find one, 
> I probably can.  We chucked loads of them, but I should still have a 
> couple somewhere.

Ditto. We've thrown loads of these away, but I kept a handful just in 
case they were ever useful again. Some BNC and some RJ45, and I think 
there's even a couple of Fibre ones in there as well.

I've also got an old hub with 10Base2 and 10BaseT ports, but I'd kinda 
like to hang on to that :-)