10Base5/Thicknet (was Re: SUN networking problems) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

22 Mar 2001

I seem to remember crawling through the interstitial floors in the
University of Kansas Medical center dragging 500 feet of yellow cable
between our VAX and a Siemens MR scanner.  I may have some pieces of the
cable and a vampire tap or two if I can find them. I'll bet the original
cable is still there just unused.  We never removed old cable just left it
in place.  We did have to make it look like the "official" network cables or
the hospital wondered who had been in the interstitial spaces.  It's kind of
hard to tap a cable while holding a flashlight in your mouth and trying not
to fall into any of the patient examining rooms below you.

I also have some of the cabletron boxes with a heartbeat that we used to
convert thin coax to RJ45 or Thicknet to RJ45, in fact there is one is use
across the hall from me connecting the GE CT scanner to a 3D workstation.  I
see them ocasionally at my local computer surplus, the PC guys want to throw
them away because they don't recognize them.  

Allied Telesyn CentreCom MX10 IEEE802.3 microtransciever 10 base 2 (mau)

Mike
mmcfadden(a)cmh.edu