INFAPLUG LAN

[Adrian Graham]

Hello folks,

A random conversation on twitter yesterday lead me to discovering an old 1980s LAN technology called INFAPLUG. This was a serial LAN hooked up via a PC serial port at 9600 baud to a ’smart plug’ the size of a wall wart. This plug contained all the smarts and hooked into the coax backbone. There were boards available for VAX amongst other things so I’m amazed I’d never heard of it.

Has anyone else?

A small writeup is here: https://archive.org/details/lansexplainedgui00curr/page/64/mode/2up?q=infaplug <https://archive.org/details/lansexplainedgui00curr/page/64/mode/2up?q=infaplug>

Cheers!

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Adrian Graham
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