dan 💾It’s a nice day. Work is in a hurry-up-and-wait phase. Let’s try getting AppleTalk running over barbed wire again!
#LiveLaughLocalTalk
#GlobalTalk
#RetroComputing
#LiveLaughLocalTalk
#GlobalTalk
#RetroComputing
This time round I’ve hacked a phone cable in half and soldered alligator clips to the other sides so we get a decent connection to the fence. #LiveLaughLocalTalk #GlobalTalk #RetroComputing
IT WORKS! AppleTalk over barbed wire fence is a go! :D
#LiveLaughLocalTalk
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And a video, if you’re into that sort of thing. Apologies for the squawking UPS.
Random_Seed 
💾 🇿🇦@billgoats the patient is alive! It’s not copper so I wonder how far it can go.
@Random_Seed That's a question for another time, when I've got better electricity options. But there are entire parts of London where the phone cables are still aluminum not copper, so it can probably stretch a decent distance.
@billgoats say what? Aluminium is not as great a conductor as copper. Based on the size of the wire and voltage range, it’s not hard to calculate how far it can go. Then is likely possible to build a repeater. Imagine a 5km AppleTalk link 😂
Linker3000CCA: Copper coated aluminium.
You see a lot of cheap network patch cables and solid core reels on eBay, somewhere mentioning in the description that they're CCA.
Avoid for any lead or runs over a few metres - or buy the decent, copper-only stuff.
@linker3000 @billgoats CCA is the worst. Solid copper core only. I think BG is referring to BT infrastructure that was constructed of aluminium (likely an alloy).
@Random_Seed @linker3000 Yeah, Rotherhithe was notorious for its impossibly bad broadband. Not sure if they've laid fibre yet or not.