Date   : Tue, 27 Jul 2010 04:24:06 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Box assorted floppies

On 27/07/2010 01:20, Mike Tomlinson wrote:

> Another favourite for the scrotes was pushing drawing pins through thin
> (coax) Ethernet.

Just be lucky you weren't at college with grown up scrotes who took a 
passion to hating the place. It isn't hard to solder a BNC socket to a 
piezo-clicky cooker lighter, or the flash system of a disposable camera. 
Cheap'n'cheerful 10base2 networking *really* hated that.

Oh, and yes, I *am* implying that a complete three-building 
hundred-computer network was based upon a really long co-ax cable. You 
learned quickly that reaching around back to connect cables was a 
precarious process when if you should dislodge the network cable, 
computers in entirely different parts of the place would crap 
themselves, followed by the users crapping themselves when it 
crashed/froze. The worst offender, as I heard it, were the Macs that 
would work happily until you wanted to save, at which point it was 
poop-in-pants time (oh, what, there wasn't a ^S keypress you could hit 
every few minutes!?!?).


See - some setups were Even Worse than Econet built upon T-pieces!


Best wishes,

Rick.

PS: No names, as admin were idiots and I slag them off a lot, even some 
18 years later. It was a textbook example of how to set up a network in 
the worst possible way (read: cheapest), administer it in the worst 
possible way (read: cheapest), maintain it in the.... you get the point.

-- 
Rick Murray, eeePC901 & ADSL WiFI'd into it, all ETLAs!
BBC B: DNFS, 2 x 5.25" floppies, EPROM prog, Acorn TTX
E01S FileStore, A3000/A5000/RiscPC/various PCs/blahblah...