23 Jan
2018
23 Jan
'18
12:51 p.m.
A side story. I was the only 'customer' of a long run of that yellow cable,
when we moved the 260 + 3/50's to a different location, I asked
if they were going to reuse the cable. "Nope, cost to much to get it out of
the roof trusses." I forget but it was a LONG run. Tektronix
back in those days was still an engineering oriented company and all I had
to do was mention it one day in the main cafeteria. Next
thing I know I was followed back to the building with at least 10 engineers
following me. I called and asked one one the facility department
guys that knew about the cable no longer being used, and his reply was
something like if it not there Monday I know nothing about it.
The bottom of the trusses were a good 15 if not more feet up. Five of us
got it down and I came home with the cable on Sunday.
My helpers would not take anything in $'s, the challenge was good enough.
Make a great cable for my ham radio hobby.
Today one would never get away with such ....
-pete
On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 12:39 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
From: Paul
Koning
The nominal OD of RG-8/U is .. within spec for
Ethernet cable.
Oh, OK. I was just used to the 10Mb cable we used being slightly larger
than
the 3Mb cable we used.
Also, Ethernet requires a solid inner conductor
(for the tap) while
RG-8/U may come stranded. (Maybe only in some variants, I'm not
sure.)
As can be seen in the photos, the 3Mb stuff (at least, the stuff we used)
was
also solid. The diameter of the center was a little smaller on the 3Mb
than on
the 10Mb; .16mm versus .23mm; not sure if that was just happenstance, or
what.
Noel