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

[Chuck Guzis]

On 06/29/2018 02:30 PM, Ethan Dicks via cctalk wrote:

> When we wired up two different locations for terminals at Software
> Results Corp in the 80s, the furthest runs were 250' or so.  9600
> baud, from VT100s back to Emulex and DEC serial muxes.  The long runs
> were 25-pair telephone cable (CAT3) and  Nevada Western modular wiring
> products at the user and and in the middle (silver satin patch cords
> and 6p6c jacks and receptacles).   Total port count was over 50 to 4-5
> machines and to 20+ offices.

That was a very common setup in the 80s.   25 or 50 pair phone cable
running through the usual wiring closets and punch-down blocks.  Simple,
and something that installers could understand.

--Chuck