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Would these machines have been networked with CAT-3? Daisy chained phone cords?
by bigwheels 7mo ago
Would these machines have been networked with CAT-3? Daisy chained phone cords?
- icedchai 7mo agoIt's also possible they used coax, either ethernet (10base2) or Arcnet.
- reaperducer 7mo agoDepends on the exact date. I never worked with DOS BBS systems, so I can't say about this photo specifically, but the ones I did work with had between one and four dialup modems hooked up to each machine, depending on its capabilities. They did "networking" through a store-and-forward messaging system. It wasn't networking as we'd recognize it today.
- petra303 7mo agoMore likely coax. 3com 509c network cards. Much less infrastructure to have a lan that way. IBM had a network that ran over phone cords that were daisycbained from one node to the next.