Dave FischerAlmost up... sun-3/280 booting but not mounting /home or allowing login yet... (Realized my server rack is of the exactly appropriate age. Ha ha.)
Duncan Bayne@davefischer The hell is that Ethernet port? 😁 I've used coax connectors, and RJ45, but never that ...
@duncan_bayne AUI. A transceiver plugs into that, which converts to 10BT (RJ45) or thinwire (coax), or fiber optics, etc. OR... a cable from that to a vampire tap which clamps onto "thickwire" ethernet. Early 80s. (Vampire taps are crazy. You DRILL into a big fat cable and clamp onto it. !!!)
@davefischer Oh, wow! Yeah that's before my time. My first networking experience was with IBM token ring. High school had partnered with IBM, who'd provided a stack of PCjx machines and an IBM 5170 as a server. They were old by the time I was using them in the early 1990s.