If you look on eBay now, there’s a modern-ish MultiTech modem rack that literally has 7 desktop modems in it. On the rear of the crate, the DB25 sticks out and they have a power harness with 5.5mm coaxial power plugs. The one I had years ago was the more conventional plugin card type. Killing myself for not keeping it. http://www.classiccmp.org/cini Long Island S100 User’s Group Get Outlook<https://aka.ms/qtex0l> for iOS ________________________________ From: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic-bounces@lists.vcfed.org> on behalf of Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Sent: Tuesday, September 1, 2020 8:14:18 PM To: Kimberley Hart via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Modem banks On 9/1/20 4:39 PM, Kimberley Hart via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Port master 2/e with 30 sportster modems hanging off it. That is how Erol’s internet started. They used the spinner racks from their video store to hold them all. I knew someone that worked there a little later, but the story was passed down.
We did exactly that at Digex, we pushed those PM-2Es hard. In the beginning we held the modems on rack-mounted shelves, but we had a lot of problems with overheating, We initially spaced them out with Legos (yes, Legos!), but we quickly replaced them with custom-made metal trays with spacer pins as soon as we could afford to do so. (When courting $100K+/mo contracts with datacenter tours, one must establish credibility and build trust...and one doesn't do that with Legos.) -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA