Token Ring coax?

While oogling all the pretty Apollo pictures at http://www.citi.umich.edu/apollo-archive/photo-gallery/ , I found two puzzling pictures: http://www.citi.umich.edu/apollo-archive/photo-gallery/apolloXrnsXautolab.j… http://www.citi.umich.edu/apollo-archive/photo-gallery/apolloXrnsXautolab2.… They're described as a "Token Ring Remote Network Switch (RNS)", but then what are all that coaxial wiring doing there? All TR which I've encountered has been either TP or those frightening IBM connectors. What is the meaning of all this? -- En ligne avec Thor 2.6a. JavaScript has been developed to show scrolling messages on your pages. It should have been named ScrollerScript, but as it came out more or less the same time when the hype on a programming language called Java (poor man's SmallTalk raped by C++ which is expected to solve all problems of the world, including traffic, pollution and AIDS) started, it's creators decided to use the term ``Java'' in it's name, too. -- README for the HTML preprocessor "hsc"