Allied Telesis made a "multi port tap" that provided four AUI ports off a single Ethernet tap. I don't know if it was a repeater/hub inside, or what. It was much smaller than a DELNI or DEREP.
Thanks, Jonathan On Fri, Aug 31, 2018 at 3:33 PM Paul Koning via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > On Aug 31, 2018, at 3:25 PM, Grant Taylor via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > > > On 08/31/2018 01:07 PM, systems_glitch via cctalk wrote: > >> Yeah, I forget what the original allowed length was for drop cables, > but I seem to remember it striking me as quite long! A few feet of CAT5 (or > even better, STP) has a lot of wiggle room :P > > > > I think I've seen reports of multi AUI port taps. Correct? > > You may be thinking of the DELNI, a multi AUI hub. Not a repeater, > apparently. DEC also made a repeater in that era, the DEREP -- just two > ports. That may be why the DELNI was built, as a way to get more fanout > without the complexity of a multiport repeater built out of discrete > electronics. > > > Could you have one multi-port tap in a computer lab (of 5 ~ 20 machines) > and connect them all to the single tap? Sort of like what is done with > 10BaseT cables to a hub in the room? > > Yes, the DELNI allowed for that, you'd plug in up to 8 NICs and then > connect the uplink port to a transceiver. > > paul > >
