10Base5/Thicknet (was Re: SUN networking problems)

I seem to remember crawling through the interstitial floors in the University of Kansas Medical center dragging 500 feet of yellow cable between our VAX and a Siemens MR scanner. I may have some pieces of the cable and a vampire tap or two if I can find them. I'll bet the original cable is still there just unused. We never removed old cable just left it in place. We did have to make it look like the "official" network cables or the hospital wondered who had been in the interstitial spaces. It's kind of hard to tap a cable while holding a flashlight in your mouth and trying not to fall into any of the patient examining rooms below you. I also have some of the cabletron boxes with a heartbeat that we used to convert thin coax to RJ45 or Thicknet to RJ45, in fact there is one is use across the hall from me connecting the GE CT scanner to a 3D workstation. I see them ocasionally at my local computer surplus, the PC guys want to throw them away because they don't recognize them. Allied Telesyn CentreCom MX10 IEEE802.3 microtransciever 10 base 2 (mau) Mike mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu