Date   : Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:03:22 +0100
From   : zeem.uk@... (Alex Taylor)
Subject: Ancient network standards (was: BBC News - Retro

On 6 July 2010 07:55, Phil Blundell <philb@...> wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 14:31 +1030, paul aslin wrote:
>> 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.

Cheaper than they were a few years ago (AUI to UTP tranceivers that
is). I've got a CentreCom one that came with a Macintosh SE/30 with an
AUI/10Base2 card - a very handy thing that I've used on multiple
machines. I wanted some more and they were in excess of ?25 at the
time.

> I have a couple of Ether1 cards equipped with those and they work fine.
> Less fiddly, as you say, than trying to arrange 10base2 cabling.

I've not used a UTP transceiver on an Ether1, as the last time I used
my A440 I still had a segment of coax running, using a Win2K box with
two network cards as a bridge. At work I found a D-Link 10Mb hub with
a coax port, still in its original box. I've put it to one side with
various bits of cabling/T-pieces/terminators I also found, as it might
come in handy. The most recent plan is to use it for my Powerbook 520
and 540c as I have a pair of AAUI-to-coax adapters, and can't really
justify spending the ?12 for the AAUI-to-UTP adapter currently on
eBay.

I also fancied hooking up an Amstrad PC1640 with an 8-bit 3com 3C503
card and some simple DOS networking tools - that stuff's stored at
work and I was trying to think of a work-related job I could do with
it, maybe trying an old LAN Manager client to access shared folders on
the network.

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Alex Taylor