Jo22 wrote:
That backbone thing sounds interesting! Did you bridge different networks types that way (like netware and tcp/ip or little big lan) ?
Yeah.... It was a real special thing back then, and I have never ever come across a same situation since.
I think it is really old outdated network technology by now.
It was one of those thick yellow cables, on wich you would "shoot in" some connector with a spike (or was it two spikes)
Then you would have this basic machine, with two network cards, each with a boot rom, and a boot-floppy.
One of the cards would be connected to this yellow cable, by using the 15-pin connector on the first netcard.
The second netcard, would go straight into a router, or a switch. I can't remember how and what it was.
The software setup, was managed by the sys-admin, that had 100% charge of the VAX system too.
Actually. He was a BOFH. He frequently visited our classroom, accusing us of downloading porn, while he dropped his
cigarette ash into the laser printer. Yeah.... We got him powned once, making the VAX system generate endless empty
files in a loop on the swap-drive.... (our little revenge, as it cleared the log file in each loop too)
EDIT:
Not a backbone.... It was a thick ethernet cable, using Vampire taps, that we installed. Thick cable never the less.
Really not handy cable, and a bitch to lay out underneath the floor when crawling on both four.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vampire_tap
Anyway...
We used it, to get the fastest possible speed at that time. You could call it the school's "backbone".
We were just told that it was "the backbone" that we connected it to.
And thinking back now, this was a load of bull-crap that we were told by this BOFH.
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Those cakes make you sick....
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