Date   : Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:00:02 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Ancient network standards

On 06/07/2010 06:01, paul aslin wrote:

> Where on earth did he even find 10baseT equipment ?

T'ween you and me, I rather suspect he got paid handsomely for some cack 
he had lying around his garage. Shame, as the network cards could do 
100mb (I'm not sure I've seen a PCI one that couldn't!), and it isn't 
exactly expensive for a four-odd port 10/100 hub (or even a router). 
But, hey, crooks aren't always the smartest people...


> I suppose he installed a roll of cat3 in the walls to go with it.

God, I didn't even think what sort of cabling it was. <shudder!>


> 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.

I've some old 10base2 stuff kicking around here... one of the computers 
had dual ports and the old PC only had 10base2. Then I wised up and got 
a cheap 10baseT card for it. I think, honestly, the co-ax route is best 
for wiring two machines back-to-back, or rigging up a small office with 
minimal disturbance. For anything serious (as in... my bedroom upwards), 
it's RJ45's all the way. Especially as it might be nice for machine X to 
not get clobbered with interrupts due to gigabytes of transfer between 
machines Y and Z...


> Its all so I can connect the A420/1's AKA25 podule to the rest of
 > the network for easier file transfer.

Might work out easier to ask on csa if anybody has an old 10baseT card 
for it?


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What, did it notice a retro-computer mailing list and think "single guy 
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Best wishes,

Rick.

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