14 Jul
2005
14 Jul
'05
12:07 a.m.
The wall boxes are totally passive.
There is a cable that connects the standard token ring board to two BNC
connectors, so the twist-lock wall connector is totally optional.
How many keyboards do you need?
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jules Richardson" <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>
To: <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 7:21 AM
Subject: Re: Apollo stuff
On Tue, 2005-07-12 at 18:16 -0700, Al Kossow wrote:
Bob said:
"I've got scads of Apollo hardware and documentation.
Most of it needs a new home, but there has been little interest so far."
Well, I'm interested. Just the logistics of getting it across the
country.
A list of what there is would be nice to see - probably too expensive to
ship it across the pond though.
Question for Apollo fans - when setting up an Apollo token ring, is it
really as simple as just chaining the machines together in a loop? I
seem to remember the manuals (the few that we do have) mentioning
plugging in to wall-mounted boxes, but it's not clear if those are just
for cable routing or whether they actually do something more important.
We're still short a Domain keyboard here, and I think we only have one
of the little interface cables that connects the network cabling to the
token ring card itself - hopefully there's nothing special to those
though and we can make something up. I'd just like to know if it's vital
to find the wall boxes though! :-)
cheers
Jules