That was quite something for the mid-80's. Yes, especially because the 100BaseT specs didn't come about until the mid-90's. Even 10BaseT wasn't really predomi

That was quite something for the mid-80's. Yes, especially because the 100BaseT specs didn't come about until the mid-90's. Even 10BaseT wasn't really predominant until the early 90's. I seem to recall Cat5 just barely coming about in around 1995. Twisted pair of any kind was pretty rare in the 80's. 10Base2 (coax, thin Ethernet) came about in 1985, and was (AFAICR) pretty much "the standard" until about 1990(ish). I could see driving a 10BaseT NIC at full bandwidth in the mid-80's, but don't believe there was a 100Mbs ANYTHING at that time.