21 Jul
2021
21 Jul
'21
9:41 a.m.
On Jul 21, 2021, at 12:00 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 7/21/21 3:20 AM, Liam Proven via cctalk wrote:
BTW, you don't need an AUI port to connect to Thicknet. If you have a 10Base2 NIC,
you can connect it with a T connector (at the NIC -- no length of coax from T to NIC). Or
you can use an N to BNC connector to splice a length of thick to a length of thin cable.
All that works fine (subject to the 10Base2 scale limits) since the impedance is 50 ohms
in either case.
paul
...
E.g. nobody wants 10base-2 or Thick Ethernet cards much any more. UTP, slightly more so:
10base-T, not much, 100base-T somewhat yes.
Um ... that's not true. I just purchased 10Base? cards specifically for the AUI
ports to connect to my 10Base5 / "Thicknet" segment. Depending on price,
I'd probably walk away from a swap meet with more too.