25 Jun
2021
25 Jun
'21
1:07 a.m.
Hello folks,
A random conversation on twitter yesterday lead me to discovering an old 1980s LAN
technology called INFAPLUG. This was a serial LAN hooked up via a PC serial port at 9600
baud to a ?smart plug? the size of a wall wart. This plug contained all the smarts and
hooked into the coax backbone. There were boards available for VAX amongst other things so
I?m amazed I?d never heard of it.
Has anyone else?
A small writeup is here:
https://archive.org/details/lansexplainedgui00curr/page/64/mode/2up?q=infap…
<https://archive.org/details/lansexplainedgui00curr/page/64/mode/2up?q=infaplug>
Cheers!
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Adrian Graham
Owner of Binary Dinosaurs, the UK's biggest private home computer collection?
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25 Jun
25 Jun
3:31 p.m.
On 6/25/21 2:07 AM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote:
Hello folks,
Hi,
A random conversation on twitter yesterday lead me to
discovering
an old 1980s LAN technology called INFAPLUG.
Would you mind sharing link(s) to said conversation? It sounds like one
I'd like to learn from / maybe be part of.
This was a serial LAN hooked up via a PC serial port
at 9600 baud to a
?smart plug? the size of a wall wart. This plug contained all the
smarts and hooked into the coax backbone. There were boards available
for VAX amongst other things so I?m amazed I?d never heard of it.
Interesting.
Has anyone else?
I have not.
A small writeup is here:
https://archive.org/details/lansexplainedgui00curr/page/64/mode/2up?q=infap…
~grumble~grumble~grumble~there goes $14~grumble~grumble~grumble~
I'll read the rest of that chapter once my (new old stock) copy of LANs
explained arrives. -- I might even be persuaded to transcribe the
subsequent page / pertinent parts if there is interest.
I don't actually /blame/ you for sharing the link Adrian. Well, maybe
--><-- this much. ;-) My predilection for for old computer /
networking technology is /my/ problem. And my pocket book's problem,
but that's a different story.
Aside: I opted for the (purportedly) new copy that was available via an
Amazon seller for ~9 + ~4 S&H. Why not? It's not that much more than a
used copy.
Cheers!
~grumble~WAVE!!!
Thank you for sharing Adrian.
P.S. I'm serious about wanting to check out the Twitter conversation.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
26 Jun
26 Jun
2:16 a.m.
On 25 Jun 2021, at 23:31, Grant Taylor via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
On 6/25/21 2:07 AM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote:
My orginal email was pretty much it unfortunately, since it was borne out of a thread on
Stag PPZ EPROM programmers.
Hello folks,
Hi,
A random conversation on twitter yesterday lead
me to discovering an old 1980s LAN technology called INFAPLUG.
Would you mind sharing link(s) to said conversation? It sounds like one I'd like to
learn from / maybe be part of. This was a
serial LAN hooked up via a PC serial port at 9600 baud to a ?smart plug? the size of a
wall wart. This plug contained all the smarts and hooked into the coax backbone. There
were boards available for VAX amongst other things so I?m amazed I?d never heard of it.
Interesting.
Has anyone else?
I have not.
A small writeup is here:
https://archive.org/details/lansexplainedgui00curr/page/64/mode/2up?q=infap…
~grumble~grumble~grumble~there goes $14~grumble~grumble~grumble~
10:39 a.m.
On 6/26/21 3:16 AM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote:
My orginal email was pretty much it unfortunately,
since it was borne
out of a thread on Stag PPZ EPROM programmers.
ACK
I saw the EPROM programmer tweet. I didn't pay much attention to it,
not my bag, and thus didn't see the reply about InfaPlug.
I wasn?t about to pay up which is why I asked here :)
Fair. The book happens to fit in the union of multiple interests of
mine and my wife and I tend to amass books. I wonder if a few online
used book stores recognize my name yet.
--
Grant. . . .
unix || die
4:42 a.m.
On Sat, 26 Jun 2021 at 00:31, Grant Taylor via cctalk
<cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
Would you mind sharing link(s) to said conversation? It sounds like one
I'd like to learn from / maybe be part of.
Would appear to be:
https://twitter.com/BinaryDinosaurs/status/1407993695006232579
Twitter has a search function, you know. :-)
https://twitter.com/search-advanced?lang=en
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