What can I say... awesome... :-) You should definitely send some pictures, if you can upload them via thicknet :-)
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 3:54 PM, Lamar Owen <lo...@pari.edu> wrote: > On Tuesday, November 02, 2010 04:55:02 pm Michael Sokolov wrote: > > Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo <carlosm3...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Not only token ring. I know of some coaxial ethernets that were running > as > > > late as 2007. > > > The network I am using to compose and post this message right now is a > > coaxial Ethernet. > > Oh man.... > > I still have some 10Base-5 segments in production. At least I'm using a > 7507 with an AUI Ethernet interface processor to drive them, now, instead of > the three Proteon P4200's (software to P5600, with IP, EGP, RIP, OSPF, XNS, > DNA, X.25, etc) that were used prior. The three P4200's hooked up to each > other with ProNET-80 over fiber (using the P3280 counterrotating ring unit). > Kindof cool to have floppies with the JNC copyright on them....software > release R8.1, 02/06/91. Last time I checked, two of the P4200's still > booted up. 2MB of RAM with a 68020 at 16MHz. Sounds like a Cisco AGS. > > The fiber portion is now 1000Base-SX and LX, but rather than rewire some > areas, we just pop some older switches with AUI 'uplinks' and use the > thicknet, which still runs well (as well as thicknet can) after all these > years. Some of the areas the thicknet traverses would be a difficult > rewire, thanks to 'right-sized' conduit and vampire taps. And if it ain't > broke..... > > ProNet-80.....TokenRing on steroids. Worked better than the IBM 8220 > TR-Fiber boxes, even using the old mini-BNC connectors. > > -- -- ========================= Carlos M. Martinez-Cagnazzo http://cagnazzo.name =========================
