Microvaxen bits etc.

Amen. I had a problem with a demo of Amiga networking (10 years old - on topic!) that turned out to be crappy terminators: the resistor was crimped over, not soldered to the outside of the BNC. There was a plastic end-cap that kind of kept the two elements in contact, but not very well. Two good terminators later, the demo went off without a hitch. I fixed the entire bag of bad ones. It's not easy to solder to chromed steel. I've never seen 3mpbs stuff, not even for VAXen, but I have seen 1Mb StarLAN stuff from AT&T (who also made 10Mbps StarLAN, a not-entirely-10base-T- compatible twisted-pair cabling standard). I've got two 10Base-T hubs in my house with 10Base-FL converters, linked by a single fibre pair connecting the basement and computer room. The upstairs hub also has 10Base-2, and is serving my older coax-only machines. The 10Base-FL stuff is all going with me to the new place to interconnect the house and the quonset hut, as soon as I can get my hands on some fibre to bury. I might be able to get some surplus from a friend who owns an ISP that just upgraded their NOC. They have about 150 feet left over. Now all I need is some fibre-short-haul modems to back up the Ethernet. -ethan