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The Original Ethernet Cable and Cable Diagrams

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Homerjay is utterly alone.
06/30/09

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Umm I'm sorry. I'm a huge dork. That photo reminds me of the scene in Space Camp where Max and Andie are trying to hook up the oxygen tank to the space shuttle.
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daqman
06/30/09

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Hah! I remember working at CERN in 1989. There was trouble with the ethernet network. In those days you made a connection to the CERN "Backbone" by putting a special clamp around the thick coax cable, like the one in the picture, that had two spikes that punctured the insulation. One was short and made a connection with the grounded sheath the other was longer and reached to the core. A very delicate beast. What we found was that some enterprising physicists had tapped into the backbone using two blocks of wood and a couple of nails. It worked for them but caused terrible signal reflections that screwed anyone upstream.
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
06/30/09

@daqman: I'm thankful that by the time I hit networking that the world was busily shifting from Thick/Thin (10base2) net to 10baseT instead.

Then again I remember crawling along the cable tray 40' up dragging coax behind me. Eventually I just started tying a string to a remote control 4x4 pickup (needed the wheel clearance) to pull a leader string, and then ran the cable that way instead.
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92BuickLeSabre
06/30/09

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Cool, but it's got nothin' on Aristotle's first diagram of the æthernet.
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NurseDave
06/30/09

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How the heck do you run data through a water line?
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
06/30/09

@NurseDave: That's not a water line, it's a very large coax cable (thicknet)
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