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My history with networking: - late 70s, rs232 terminals. well, it kind of worked. i spent a lot of time under the desk - early 80s, frozen hose ethernet - i r
by zabzonk 2y ago
My history with networking:
- late 70s, rs232 terminals. well, it kind of worked. i spent a lot of time under the desk
- early 80s, frozen hose ethernet - i remember not being able to get a sun workstation to sit on the desk because the cable lifted it off too much
- late 80s coax ethernet all sorts of termination and other problems
- 90s twisted pair and hubs - things started working as they should.
- a bit later cheap switches came along, but still lots of wires at the desk
- now, wireless bliss.
- don't talk to me about token ring.
But of course I don't do this stuff any more.
- pcdoodle 2y agoNever heard of frozen hose, funny. I briefly used "thin" coax before the transition to IP cameras, it was a basic NTSC signal into a PCI capture card. 12/24V was pumped over a secondary cable attached to the main coax (siamese) We were digital plumbers!