Thicknet/10base5 Test Segment: The Cable is In!
All, A few months ago, I mentioned one of my suppliers had Belden 89880 thicknet Ethernet cable. Well, last week I finally made it down to his warehouse and picked it up! The final bits for a test segment came in today, so I set up a little link between my SPARCstation 10 and DEChub 90: https://imgur.com/a/GDUR36j Anyone interested in cable can email me directly (please change the subject line, it'll get binned into my cctalk folder otherwise). I can provide any level of "kit" from just the cable to fully ready to go. I do have a very few NOS Cabletron ST-500-01 transceiver/non-intrusive tap kits as well. Thanks, Jonathan
On 2018-06-25 17:20, systems_glitch via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
All,
A few months ago, I mentioned one of my suppliers had Belden 89880 thicknet Ethernet cable. Well, last week I finally made it down to his warehouse and picked it up! The final bits for a test segment came in today, so I set up a little link between my SPARCstation 10 and DEChub 90:
Ooh! I'm not ready for it yet, but it looks like you've got enough supply to last a while. ;) I have a DEC H4005 at the least, but I'll keep an eye open for a couple more. -- Jameel Akari
Heh, yes, this roll should last for a *little* while :P As long as you're not in a hurry, I can drop it off next time I'm up your way for work! It'd look nice, connected to a Unibus Ethernet board :) Thanks, Jonathan On Tue, Jun 26, 2018 at 10:49 AM, jakari via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
On 2018-06-25 17:20, systems_glitch via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
All,
A few months ago, I mentioned one of my suppliers had Belden 89880 thicknet Ethernet cable. Well, last week I finally made it down to his warehouse and picked it up! The final bits for a test segment came in today, so I set up a little link between my SPARCstation 10 and DEChub 90:
Ooh! I'm not ready for it yet, but it looks like you've got enough supply to last a while. ;)
I have a DEC H4005 at the least, but I'll keep an eye open for a couple more.
-- Jameel Akari
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 5:20 PM, systems_glitch via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
All,
A few months ago, I mentioned one of my suppliers had Belden 89880 thicknet Ethernet cable. Well, last week I finally made it down to his warehouse and picked it up! The final bits for a test segment came in today, so I set up a little link between my SPARCstation 10 and DEChub 90:
Neat!
Anyone interested in cable can email me directly
Will do. I already have a couple of Cabletron ST-500s with Thicknet taps, plus several (4? 5?) with a 10Base2 BNC top instead of the 10Base5 vampire tap. If there were an inexpensive source of the actual tap and cable clamp, I could put these on an Etherhose.
I do have a very few NOS Cabletron ST-500-01 transceiver/non-intrusive tap kits as well.
These tap kits may be exactly what I'm looking for. Oh, I also happen to have more than two 10Base5 terminators. The one substantial thing I lack is any fresh N-connector ends to terminate RG-8. I'll PM about this. Thanks! -ethan
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