Date   : Tue, 06 Jul 2010 14:31:11 +1030
From   : station240@... (paul aslin)
Subject: Ancient network standards (was: BBC News - Retro

> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 17:12:29 +0200
> From: rick@...
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] BBC News - Retro computers on display to fans
at festival
> 
> * - This isn't to disparage IT professionals, but the fewer nerds there 
> are, the more prices can go up, and the less chance there will be for 
> competition and correlation.
> 
> I've come across shocking quotes for things - example: a local library 
> (thankfully not the two I used to use!) forked out nearly three grand 
> for having their four computers networked and connected to their ADSL 
> box. Yes... two network cards (the other two had it on-board already), a 
> 10baseT (yes, 10!) hub, and a bunch of cabling. The guy came in, spent a 
> day and a half fiddling inside the machines, it looked really 
> complicated to slide in an ethernet card. I told them they needed to get 
> a 100 megabit jobbie as if the ADSL is something like 16 and the network 
> is 10, duh, basic maths...
> ...to receive many excuses, ranging from "I don't know what I'm talking 
> about" to "I am not an official IT specialist so we cannot contract 
> you". What they mean is "It's a government contract and I'm not a 
> shyster" :-) but sadly the town purse stumped up the 3K, not Paris. 
> F'king idiots... and it gets worse, he's retained as the support guy. 
> Library girl refused to tell me his hourly rate. Probably too 
> embarrassed that they fell for it.
> How did I get on the topic? She was complaining to herself that the 
> internet here always seemed so much slower than at home.

Where on earth did he even find 10baseT equipment ?
I suppose he installed a roll of cat3 in the walls to go with it.

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.

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.

                                         
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