23 Jan
2018
23 Jan
'18
11:07 a.m.
Noel,
Have you seen this part of the video where David Boggs (designer of the first 3 Mb
Ethernet card for the Alto), and Ron Crane (designer of the 10 Mb Ethernet) are doing a
show and tell in their own words? You get to see the clamps, the drill, the transceivers,
the cards, and some of the inventors. Regrettably Ron passed away a few month after we
took the video. We still miss him.
https://youtu.be/XhIohWr10kU?t=4m27s
Marc
-----Original Message-----
From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Al Kossow via cctalk
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 8:10 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