23 Jan
2018
23 Jan
'18
8:12 a.m.
Vampire taps. Now there's a blast from the past. Somewhere around here
I still have my toolbag which still has my tap drill for installing those taps.
bill
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From: cctalk <cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org> on behalf of Al Kossow via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 11:10 AM
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Ethernet cable (Was: Sun3 valuations?)
there are pictures of the transceiver w/o the vampire tap on bitsavers
under http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/ethernet_3mb/
On 1/23/18 7:51 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote:
From: Grant
Taylor
According to the following page, it was not RG-8
cable ... As such it
was purpose built.
The 10MBit cable, yes; it was custom (you can see 'Ethernet' printed on the
chunk in the picture). (I'd forgotten about the black stripes! I'm not sure
we really bothered to follow that.)
The earlier 3Mbit I'm not so sure about - that has the air of standard
commercial coax.
I wish there was a picture of a 3Mbit transceiver, clamp-on holder, etc! Does
the CHM or LCM have them with their Alto stuff?
Noel