Microvaxen bits etc.

From: Sam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Wed Oct 28 16:28:36 1998

On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, William Donzelli wrote:

> > Anyway, with 10 base T, there may be a dozen cable coming out from the
> > room where the bub is to other machines in the house. With 10 base 2,
> > there's normally only one coax cable.
>
> Comprimise! The hamfests these days seem to be littered with Cabletron
> 10base2 hubs (miniMMACs). Anyway, at work we have been ripping out all of
> the 10base2 and replacing it with 10baseT. We have had too many problems
> with the coax - problems causing whole segments to go away, and other
> nasty things. Anyway, a great deal of the old stuff is going home with me.

Sounds like you may have mismatched cable segments, cables bent at angles
exceeding the spec, possibly non-standard cabling, etc. Still, removing
the coax is a good move. Your life will be made much, much easier.

> I think I may now have the greatest collection of 10base2 transcievers
> ever assembled (kind of like that guy that collects floppy jackets).

Cool, get pictures of all of them and start a web site!
 
> > Anyway, the hubs can fail.
>
> Not as much as 10base2 old cabling!

I agree! I've never had a hub fail. On the other hand I've had coax
cables fail spontaneously (maybe because I didn't go thru the trouble of
soldering them :) However, I see Tony's point about 20 years from now
trying to replace a failed ASIC in a hub. By that time though, good luck
finding RG-58 coax either.

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