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I linked this to my dad (who's been a network engineer and CIO-type for nearly thirty years) and his response kind of floored me: "yeah, we did this with ARCNET
by eropple 9y ago
I linked this to my dad (who's been a network engineer and CIO-type for nearly thirty years) and his response kind of floored me: "yeah, we did this with ARCNET. Brine-soaked twine." So, one, this is Older Than It Looks, and two, apparently my dad might be a wizard?
- jurjenh 9y agoAlso reminds me of ethernet over barbed wire. Seems like similar things have been done for a long time... http://www.sigcon.com/Pubs/edn/SoGoodBarbedWire.htm http://www.sigcon.com/Pubs/edn/SoGoodBarbedWire.htm
- roywiggins 9y agoA long time! https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/barbed-wire-telephone-lines-homesteaders-prairie-america-history https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/barbed-wire-telephone-...
- softawre 9y agoMan, I wish my dad was technical. Treasure that relationship.
- Waterluvian 9y agoMy dad did CS in the 70s then got into sales. So our tech talks usually go right to, "do your languages do recursion? That was a big deal when I was doing Cobol on UW's PDP8" or something along those lines. Always with the recursion.
- StavrosK 9y ago"Does this conversation?"
- bwann 9y agoI've often wondered if Ethernet can be ran over brine or wet string, if even only just a few inches. I played with the idea once unsuccessfully but never put more than five minutes into it.
- simcop2387 9y agoI wouldn't expect modern 100BaseT or such to work, but probably the older 10Base2 over coax type ethernet i'd expect to work.
- ryacko 9y ago"The standard on copper twisted pair is IEEE 802.3ab for Cat 5e UTP, or 4D-PAM5; four dimensions using PAM (pulse amplitude modulation) with five voltages, −2 V, −1 V, 0 V, +1 V, and +2 V." if you can rig the equipment to provide five voltages over four dimensions...
- trhway 9y ago>Brine-soaked twine. reminded about other sodium ion transmission channels - our nerves.