[GreenKeys] [OT] Speaking of ancient Xerox stuff...

[Dave Horsfall]

On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Jeffrey D Angus wrote:

> Anyone remember the Altos system?

Not Altos specifically, but a lot of stuff like WICAT, early Sun and 
Pyramid, etc.

> Paper white displays, thick-net ether cables and the drop down cable 
> from the transceiver screwed to the side of the cable in the dropped 
> ceiling, removable Pertec disc media.

And I grabbed all the 50-ohm coax I could get (as long as it hadn't been 
vampired), with the "N" connectors...  Heck, at one time I had yards of 
the later thin-net cable, with their BNC connectors :-)

> Early '80s

Yep.

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