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

Jon Elson elson at pico-systems.com
Mon Jun 25 20:46:02 CDT 2018


On 06/25/2018 04:20 PM, systems_glitch via cctalk wrote:
> All,
>
> A few months ago, I mentioned one of my suppliers had Belden 89880 thicknet
> Ethernet cable. Well, last week I finally made it down to his warehouse and
> picked it up! The final bits for a test segment came in today, so I set up
> a little link between my SPARCstation 10 and DEChub 90:
>
> https://imgur.com/a/GDUR36j
>
>
Wow,a blast from the past.  You say the spool is heavy!  
Yes, I remember those, indeed they were plenty heavy.

But, I'm glad we have 100 and 1000 mbit ethernet now, much 
better! Years ago I ran thinwire all through my house, now I 
have twisted pair.

Jon


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