13 Jul
2005
13 Jul
'05
12:37 p.m.
All,
On 7/13/05, Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 18:16 -0700, Al Kossow wrote:
A list of what there is would be nice to see - probably too expensive to
ship it across the pond though.
Question for Apollo fans - when setting up an Apollo token ring, is it
really as simple as just chaining the machines together in a loop? I
seem to remember the manuals (the few that we do have) mentioning
plugging in to wall-mounted boxes, but it's not clear if those are just
for cable routing or whether they actually do something more important.
The wall boxes are just fancy make before break connection boxes. The
ring works fine without them.
We're still short a Domain keyboard here, and I
think we only have one
of the little interface cables that connects the network cabling to the
token ring card itself - hopefully there's nothing special to those
though and we can make something up. I'd just like to know if it's vital
to find the wall boxes though! :-)
Most of the Apollo range happily talk to a serial console so a
screen/keyboard isn't really necessary. However in my not so humble
opinion, I am yet to see anything that is anywhere near as nice as the
GUI. .
There isn't anything fancy to the token ring cables. I forget the
impedance but the first Apollos I used where two connected back to
back using butchered token ring cables and some nice gold plated
connectors (F connectors is my memory serves me correctly).
From memory, they also boot happily across Ethernet.
Although, 12Mb/s
Token ring is far nicer then 10Mb/s CSMA/CD.
Simon
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