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

[Rich Alderson]

From: Chuck Guzis
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2018 3:43 PM

> 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.

In fact, both of the LOTS sites (the original, in the CERAS building, and
LOTS Two in the old bowling alley at Tresidder Union) were wired this way.
I learned to use a punchdown tool my first day on the job.

                                                                Rich
								

Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer
Living Computers: Museum + Labs
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