On Monday 05 May 2008 19:38, David Griffith wrote:
On Mon, 5 May 2008, David Griffith wrote:
On Mon, 5 May 2008, Jules Richardson wrote:
There must have been some past networking
technology equivalent to
using VHS video tape for data storage :-)
The ersatz token-passing protocol used with Atari STs and MIDI might
qualify if anyone used it for anything more serious than a cool hack.
Oh. How about those assorted daisy-chain schemes using RT11 phone cables?
I remember the labels reading something like "much less expensive than
Ethernet".
I don't remember running into those, how were they interfaced? And used with
what sort of equipment?
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