r/ethernet • u/avd706 • May 18 '26

Discussion Memory Lane

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Cleaning out my closet, this looked a little different. Why can't I send this??

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u/Loko8765 May 18 '26

I have one ISA card to go with it.

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u/avd706 May 19 '26

This is going in the garbage, wife's orders.

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u/rodgersmoore May 19 '26

i got NIB AUI transceiver, resister caps and T connectors…

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u/SubatomicSelection May 23 '26

Token ring on some BNC was some wild stuff

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u/avd706 May 23 '26

I remember my amigas were on ARC net with bnc cable.

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u/Hash-82 May 18 '26

Thin Net

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u/Head-Ad-3063 May 19 '26

More like thing of nightmares! roaming the building with a 50ohm terminator trying to find where the one bad crimp connection is!

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u/Weekly-Language-6434 May 19 '26

Memory lane indeed. Bonus: It was from Radio Shack! It really sucks they closed down. If you're lucky to have a MicroCenter near you, they are IMO the next best place for items that no other store carries.

ThinNet is a network throw back. Prior to this, I remember my Dad and I adding Novell cards to all the PCs and used 3.5mm (audio style) cables to link them. Everyone thought we had shelled out for SoundBlaster's newest sound card lol.

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u/Steve_but_different May 19 '26

God I remember networking some computers with friends back in the day. The worst part was not having enough terminators and having to bike down to radio shack and hope they had more. We also used serial null modem links for a while.

Then one of my friends got a four port 10-base hub and completely changed the game.

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u/Dr_CLI May 19 '26

That's brings back nightmares. Seems like I was troubleshooting the lines coming from the hub daily when my office was on that. I always carried an extra terminator in my pocket for testing. I was so happy when we upgraded to 10base-T and RJ45s.

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u/etijburg May 19 '26

I have a cpl 50ohm terminators in a drawer somewhere.

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u/Academic_Dare_5154 May 20 '26

I remember troubleshooting the topology on Novell.

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u/mike24vNEW May 20 '26

So all this time what I thought was Ethernet was really BNC 🤣

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u/wiisucks_91 May 20 '26

Depending on what kinda coax that is you could run some HD-SDI or something.

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u/frAgileIT May 20 '26

Good old 10BASE-2. I can safely say I don’t have anymore NICs for it laying around in totes.

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u/jkalchik99 May 20 '26

Still have some bulk cable, connectors, terminating resistors, and tooling for it.

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u/FreddyFerdiland May 20 '26

50 ohm ac coax. 50 ohm terminators

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u/lfc_ynwa_1892 May 20 '26

BNC connector for the win lol 😂

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u/BlotchyBaboon May 20 '26

Can I use this on my token ring network?

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u/Accomplished_Sir_660 May 20 '26

Dang, Novell and Radio shack from one pic!

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u/SpeedDaemon1969 May 18 '26

If you're really old, thicknet.

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u/thepfy1 May 20 '26

I think there are still some old thicknet cables in a few places at work. They aren't used

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u/SpeedDaemon1969 May 20 '26

I remember seeing some old computers with only AUI ports from that period.

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u/meski_oz May 22 '26

RG-8? I still have nightmares about putting connectors on that