Vampire taps. Now there's a blast from the past. Somewhere around here I still have my toolbag which still has my tap drill for installing those taps.
bill ________________________________ From: cctalk <cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org> on behalf of Al Kossow via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2018 11:10 AM To: cctalk@classiccmp.org Subject: Re: Ethernet cable (Was: Sun3 valuations?) there are pictures of the transceiver w/o the vampire tap on bitsavers under http://bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/ethernet_3mb/ On 1/23/18 7:51 AM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk wrote: > > From: Grant Taylor > > > According to the following page, it was not RG-8 cable ... As such it > > was purpose built. > > The 10MBit cable, yes; it was custom (you can see 'Ethernet' printed on the > chunk in the picture). (I'd forgotten about the black stripes! I'm not sure > we really bothered to follow that.) > > The earlier 3Mbit I'm not so sure about - that has the air of standard > commercial coax. > > I wish there was a picture of a 3Mbit transceiver, clamp-on holder, etc! Does > the CHM or LCM have them with their Alto stuff? > > Noel >
