[Cialug] thinnet cable
Kenneth Ristau
kristau at kristau.net
Mon Jul 11 21:13:26 CDT 2005
Nathan C. Smith wrote:
>
> I've finally decided that the age of thinnet cable is over and I'm going to
> dump a couple hundred feet of it. The Yankee in me demands that I make sure
> nobody else can use it before I do.
>
> For those of you too young to remember thinnet was a thin coaxial cable used
> in a bus configuration for Ethernet.
>
> If for some godforsaken reason you are still using it let me know if you
> need it.
>
> -Nate
Ahh, those were the days. Built my first home network for $20. The
cable and network cards were free, but CompUSA still sold the BNC tees
and terminators. Doubt they do any more. If anyone takes this cable
off of Nate's hands, I can probably dig up my old tees and terminators
for you too.
--
Tired programmer
Coding late into the night
The core dump follows
My GNUPG public key is available at http://www.kristau.net/public_key.asc
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