Wow... Reading this thread I feel like some sort of time traveler, what with my cable internet, multicore processor, and smartphone.
On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 11:56 PM, Michael Sokolov <msoko...@ivan.harhan.org>wrote: > I wrote: > > : Thin. I *so* wish I had thick coaxial Ethernet, but alas, my present > : physical facility is just too small for that: my present coax Ethernet > : network is contained within a single machine room which is a converted > : bedroom. > > Forgot to add: this thin coax Ethernet interconnects several MicroVAXen > (including ivan.Harhan.ORG, the machine on which my mail lives and from > which I am sending this post) running 4.3BSD-Quasijarus, and a Cisco > 2500 router which connects my retrocomputing centre to > ARPANET^H^H^H^H^H^H^HSDSL. The SDSL connection is made via a device of > my very own design and make that connects to the copper pair, handles > the physics of 2-wire full-duplex transmission, and converts SDSL/ATM to > V.35, or more precisely EIA-530, which then goes to the Cisco 2500. > > MS > >
