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Token ring in 1995? I guess a lot changes in 20 years. Networking was very different then, ethernet cards were like $600 in '93 https://books.google.com/books?
by patmcguire 10y ago
Token ring in 1995? I guess a lot changes in 20 years. Networking was very different then, ethernet cards were like $600 in '93
https://books.google.com/books?id=mhAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA67&dq=ethernet+adapter+thousand+dollars+1990s&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjxp_GP4LLQAhVEw4MKHWtmAsgQ6AEIHTAA#v=onepage&q=ethernet%20adapter%20thousand%20dollars%201990s&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=mhAEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA67&dq=et...
- EvanAnderson 10y agoI'm a little dubious that it was actually Token Ring, based on the description. From "coaxial cable with fun twist-lock fittings" it sounds more like thin-wire Ethernet-- 10Base-2. That would be a lot lower cost and definitely more common than token ring in '95.
- NDizzle 10y agoI supported a token ring network in 1998, but that was the emergency room network at a hospital in Arkansas. You're right - it sounds like BNC.
- unixhero 10y agoToken ring delivered 16mbit, 6mbits more than regular 10-base-2 coaxial or twisted pair Ethernet at the time.
- Florin_Andrei 10y agoYeah, that was coax Ethernet.
- jgalt212 10y agowith the vampire taps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_tap https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_tap
- EvanAnderson 10y agoThin-wire Ethernet didn't use vampire taps, however. Everything was terminated in BNCs.