<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 20, 2021, at 13:09 , Michael Thomas <<a href="mailto:mike@mtcc.com" class="">mike@mtcc.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/20/21 12:38 PM,
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:james.cutler@consultant.com">james.cutler@consultant.com</a> wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" cite="mid:98ABAEF8-958A-43F5-84F7-CC499E666C49@consultant.com" class=""><div class="">
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<div class=""> I miss DECUS, but not DELNIs.</div>
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</blockquote></div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>I miss DECUS, too.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Not only do I not miss DELNIs, I don’t miss any of the trappings of coaxial-based ethernet, including, but not</div><div>limited to:</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>AUI cables</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>AUIs</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Vampire taps</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>BNC T-Connectors</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>BNC Terminators</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>SO-239/PL-259 terminators</div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>TDRs that cost $10k+<div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Co-ax pinning</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Thin-net cables getting cut by furniture legs</div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Following a long poorly documented thickness cable looking for the shorted vampire tap</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Does anyone miss any of these things?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Twisted pair ethernet was probably the best thing to come to networking since TCP/IP.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>