Thicknet/10base5 Test Segment: The Cable is In!

[systems_glitch]

Yeah, Allied Telesyn/Telesis made (and still makes!) really decent hardware
at a midrange price. I often recommend their gigabit and PoE switches for
cost-sensitive projects, especially where management isn't really needed.

Thanks,
Jonathan

On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 5:56 PM Cameron Kaiser via cctalk <
cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:

> > Allied Telesis made a "multi port tap" that provided four AUI ports off a
> > single Ethernet tap. I don't know if it was a repeater/hub inside, or
> what.
> > It was much smaller than a DELNI or DEREP.
>
> Pretty sure I know the device you're talking about and I think it was
> a hub internally. I liked it a lot better than the DELNI.
>
> Come to think of it, I liked most of Allied Telesyn's stuff. I still have
> a 10Mbit hub of theirs handling the low speed systems and the 10b2 segment
> going to the HP 9000, and a whole mess of the transceivers which are
> periodically useful on AUI-only systems.
>
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