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

Bill Gunshannon bill.gunshannon at hotmail.com
Thu Jun 28 14:14:15 CDT 2018



On 06/28/2018 02:37 PM, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Jun 2018 at 20:13, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk
> <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
>> The US Electrical Code has not allowed any kind of signal wire in
>> the same conduit with any kind of power wiring for as far back as
>> I can remember.
> Sounds very sensible, but the Isle of Man isn't part of the USA, nor
> even part of the UK. It's its own little country and this was the late
> 1980s. I suspect the Manx Electrical Code or equivalent had no mention
> of data cabling at that time. :-)
>
>

I realize that, just pointing out that the threat was already well known
by the 1980's.

bill



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