> On Feb 21, 2020, at 1:19 PM, Roger Addy via cctech <cct...@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I am using an HP 9000 Series 360 with a "Thin LAN" coax card to run a piece
> of equipment. The LAN connection is not currently being used. I'm wondering
> if it's possible to connect it to a modern ethernet network? If so, what
> could I do with it? I found an adapter on Amazon. I would like to be able to
> transfer files and possibly print. The file systems are not compatible
> except for maybe ASCII files. Anyone have any thoughts? Even if I could
> transfer files into another HP 9000 system it would be beneficial.
Assuming it's standard 10Base2 Ethernet, you need either a 2 to T adapter, a
repeater with BNC as well as RJ45 connectors, or a repeater with an AUI
connector plus a 10Base2 AUI.
I still have tucked away somewhere a repeater with a couple of RJ45 ports plus
a BNC port. You'll also need at least one terminator -- most likely a 10BaseT
repeater port is internally terminated but the NIC almost certainly is not,
meaning you'd have to hook it up with a T connector that has a terminator on it.
Given the above hardware, you'd connect either to a 10/100 switch, or a
10/100/1000 switch. Supposedly Gigabit Ethernet devices are supposed to be
backward compatible all the way to 10 Mb Ethernet, but I'm not so sure this is
at all common. But I'd expect a 100 Mb switch to support 10 Mb Ethernet. (Any
that don't probably aren't worth using because such a major conformance failure
suggests other failures might be present as well.)
paul
