Date : Sat, 24 Jul 2010 02:18:31 +1030
From : station240@... (paul aslin)
Subject: Ancient network standards
> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 23:01:16 +0100
> From: tim.fardell@...
> To: bbc-micro@...
> Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Ancient network standards
>
> Pete Turnbull wrote:
>> On 06/07/2010 07:45, Rob wrote:
>>> On 6 July 2010 05:01, paul aslin 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 :-)
To all the people who offered a AUI adapter, that sure would be a big help.
As I can then use it as a econet to ethernet bridge.
At the moment though I need a lot more to get the old 420/1 working, its
a long term project just getting a keyboard, mouse and some sort of monitor
for it. The TV is busted at the moment so I have to fix that next anyway
so I can try that as a monitor.
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