The Original Ethernet Cable And Cable Diagrams

@dingus: Fantastic

DreamTheEndless

@supasamurai: Name it, I've eaten it, A po' boy is delicious, but not what I would call a sub, a good sandwich definitely. I love me some catfish po' boy. Shrimp po' boy is good too.

CaptainHoratioMcCallister

@MDevonB: spurt you say?

NurseDave

We had those cables connecting the two computers in my parents house circa around 1996.

TheFuzz53

@Windhawk: Frozen yellow cables.

FrankenPC

@irfan:

Looks like he just hid his hookah in the wall...

ru486

@Hiphopopotamus: Sorry i live in Philly. And i LOVE Wawa. But they definitely dont make the best hoagies.

robkonz1

@CaptainHoratioMcCallister: Sucker. You need to saddle up to a poboy, son. Then you might be able to judge what a sandwich is. *Maybe*

supasamurai

@dingus: I didn't notice the tee in there, got my glasses on now :^)

daqman

@Matingmonkey is a proud eMac owner: Pretty awesome Freudian slip right there.

@TheLightsAreBackOn: Hah, yeah, dymo labels. I mainly remember the name because some company made a nostalgia keychain version that actually works.

@K_dawg: Not my hometown, but the comment is relevant when the town is ultimately responsible for the existence of the post. The company is Xerox, no matter where it is, it all started in Rochester.

CaptainHoratioMcCallister

@CaptainHoratioMcCallister: Again I point out that PARC is in Palo Alto, not Rochester. Hometown pride is fine and all, when its relevant. To this post, its really not.

K_dawg

He didnt even use Microsoft Visio to do the diagram. How unprofessional!

"look but don't touch"
There's something I haven't seen forever - one of those clicky sign-making things

TheLightsAreBackOn

@Hiphopopotamus: Yeahhhh... I've had New York's approximations of Mexican Food....nothankyou.jpg

@daqman: Luckily I didn't have to deal with thicknet. I *did* have to deal with thinnet, and both passive and active star networks (Farallon gear for the AppleTalk network).

I took an AppleTalk packet analysis course from Kurt Van Der Sluis (one of the guys that helped design the Farallon LocalTalk gear).

Mmmmm, 230kb/s AppleTalk network over silver satin (daisychained). Those were the days.

Zanzan42

"...The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. " -HST

dingus

I was working at HP's RF/Microwave lab when they brought it by for us to test. I remember drilling holes into the coax cable to put it on the Time Domain Reflectometer.

bigbaddaddy

@daqman: He's half right. That pic shows two 10b5 runs going into each end of a BNC tee. My guess is that a 10b2 AUI media converter lived in there.

dingus

@snideguy: Yes, in the future all networks shall be highly explosive!

Fluidics, the computational infrastructure of the future. [en.wikipedia.org]
That hose is carrying honest-to-goodness liquid ether.

snideguy

@Kim

psychiccheese

@ISOHaven: nope, 10Base5, thick ethernet. What you refer to is what we used to call thin ethernet. Ahh, those were the days, we used to live in a cardboard box in th' middle o' th' road...

daqman

Did the Goracle invent this cable?

@Matingmonkey is a proud eMac owner: *him

Matingmonkey is a proud eMac owner

@puffnstuff: If she said that you might want to leave her. or kim, whatever /it/ is

Matingmonkey is a proud eMac owner

@daqman: Once, in the early 90's, I was onsite at Zenith's offices just outside Chicago (before they were completely taken over by LG). They still had quite a bit of coax in there. We were trying to figure out why this one section one of the floors couldn't talk to the network, and we saw a weird reflection on the scope that the (much more experience at the time) guy I was working with said he'd never seen anything like it. Eventually I found a little magnet with a clip, which someone had used to clip papers to the cabinet over their cubicle, had fallen and was resting against one of the connectors linking two segments of the network!

@yungjerry703:
Actually, it did pan out - it's just that it has matured quite a bit since then.

@NurseDave: You can either alternate the water pressure, or send a spurt to the other computer.

Half second spurt of water = 0, full second spurt = 1. Or 20 PSI is 0, and 30 is 1. Or however you want to work it out so it works good.

MDevonB

@CaptainHoratioMcCallister: I don't think NY really has ever had a horse in the 'Best Sub' race... We're content knowing we have the best everything else.

But, for the record, a turkey Shorti from any WaWa on the East Coast is the best hoagie around. And yes, it's called a hoagie.

Looks like normal 10Base2 to me. Been there, done that.

[en.wikipedia.org]

Just looks like the cable has more shielding.

ISOHaven

@NurseDave: The internet is a bunch of tubes, don't 'cha know?

newgalactic

Umm I'm sorry. I'm a huge dork. That photo reminds me of the scene in Space Camp where Max and Andie are trying to hook up the oxygen tank to the space shuttle.

@daqman: I'm thankful that by the time I hit networking that the world was busily shifting from Thick/Thin (10base2) net to 10baseT instead.

Then again I remember crawling along the cable tray 40' up dragging coax behind me. Eventually I just started tying a string to a remote control 4x4 pickup (needed the wheel clearance) to pull a leader string, and then ran the cable that way instead.

@[en.wikipedia.org]

At NASA we deployed thicknet with vampire taps and repeaters. Now that was fun!

@NurseDave: That's not a water line, it's a very large coax cable (thicknet)

@K_dawg: You obviously are unfamiliar with Xerox, which was founded in Rochester. If it wasn't for Xerox, this post would have never come to be.

CaptainHoratioMcCallister

wow glad that didn't pan out. i don't think i could fit 200 feet of this stuff in my apt a few years ago when i was having xbox lan parties.

yungjerry703

@daqman: Googled it and found the correct, non wooden, device. A vampire tap:

[upload.wikimedia.org]

daqman

@CaptainHoratioMcCallister: Uh, what does Rochester, NY have to do with anything here? The PARC in Xerox PARC stands for Palo Alto Research Center, as in Palo Alto California. Nowhere in this entire post is Rochester NY mentioned.

K_dawg

So that's also the worlds first wireless network. Wonder how the computer's handled that 13-bit WRS(Wireless Radio Scramblatron) security.

Hah! I remember working at CERN in 1989. There was trouble with the ethernet network. In those days you made a connection to the CERN "Backbone" by putting a special clamp around the thick coax cable, like the one in the picture, that had two spikes that punctured the insulation. One was short and made a connection with the grounded sheath the other was longer and reached to the core. A very delicate beast. What we found was that some enterprising physicists had tapped into the backbone using two blocks of wood and a couple of nails. It worked for them but caused terrible signal reflections that screwed anyone upstream.

daqman

Hahahahahaha, indeed it's a water line XD

Cool, but it's got nothin' on Aristotle's first diagram of the æthernet.

@NurseDave: Uh, through the ether?

spannu

radio ether? like they'll ever send data over the air.

irfan

@puffnstuff: Hers is bigger?

NurseDave

@Houseonfire:

that's what she said

@Houseonfire: I'm sure you can handle more bandWIDTH too.

jcrockerman

How the heck do you run data through a water line?

NurseDave

@Houseonfire: Mines bigger? Who said anything about mines? I have no desire to make mines bigger. What a non sequitur post.

CaptainHoratioMcCallister

Yay for Rochester, NY! Home of Dibella's, the best subs on the planet, go ahead New Yorkers, debate me.

CaptainHoratioMcCallister

Mines bigger