[EXTERNAL] Re: Old days networking

[Jacek Radzikowski]

This would be a good question for the Extra exam

Jacek


On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 at 16:14, Howard Cunningham <Howardc at macrollc.com>
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> 50 ohm coax..     and Vampire Taps.
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> Question:  If there was a problem with network connectivity and you
> measure 50 ohms on a connector:  What is the problem?
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> Or a variation of the question: what is the problem if ohm meter measures
> 25 ohms?
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> *From:* Tacos [mailto:tacos-bounces+howardc=macrollc.com at amrad.org] *On
> Behalf Of *Jacek Radzikowski
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 12, 2023 3:56 PM
> *To:* Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net>
> *Cc:* tacos at amrad.org
> *Subject:* [EXTERNAL] Re: Old days networking
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> RJ45 connector? What a whimsy, new-fangled gimmick
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> Jacek.
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> On Sun, 12 Mar 2023 at 15:50, Alex Fraser <beatnic at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Those were the days, a parallel to Ethernet adapter circa 1993. IIRC you
> could use a floppy with drivers and a .bat file to boot into MS Dos and be
> able to use a network. If you remember folks Ethernet adapters weren't
> built into computers back then, but all had a parallel port. This was a
> particularly nice gadget to have when configuring early laptops. This was
> the desirable version of that Xircom gadget that had both kinds of
> Ethernet, remember when Ethernet was 50 ohm coax?
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