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

[Chris Elmquist]

On Thursday (04/02/2015 at 11:14AM +1100), Dave Horsfall wrote:
> On Wed, 1 Apr 2015, Jeffrey D Angus wrote:
> 
> > Lots of that yellow and orange stiff "RG-8 sort of" coax started showing 
> > up at the TRW swap meet. Testing it proved it was best suited for the 
> > scrap barrel. It pretty much was useless above 10 MHz.
> 
> Sounds about right for 10base5 stuff, but I only ever used short lengths 
> of it.

Actually, the ethernet used on the Alto was a 3 Mbit system with
totally different framing (headers et al) than what we now know as
10base{whatever}.  Obviously the beginnings of something big though.

There was just a discussion on the ClassicComputing mailing list in the
last couple days about building bridges/gateways between that network and
"modern" stuff so that they can run some Alto(s) from a machine like a
DEC20 ;-)

Chris
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Chris Elmquist