RE: Also Leaving MidRange Equipment -- MIDRANGE-L

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> A lot of this reminds me of the discussion I had with a former manager.
> I  was arguing for switching from twinax over twisted pair to lan over
> cat 5.
>  His argument was that everyone and their brother made boosters for
> twinax
> over twisted pair.  I argued that it was because "there was a market for
>  it".  The technology was so crappy that you need a bazillion boosters
> to  keep it working.

We've got Twinax still in service around Touchtone, alongside Cat5 that I
personally installed, which once carried Token Ring, and now carries
Ethernet.

Occasionally, when we need to jury-rig a real terminal somewhere other
than "the cage" and my office (the only two places with Twinax), we will
use the appropriate matching transformers to pass Twinax through a Cat5
line. Not my first choice, though.

I really wish I'd pulled 6 strands of Twinax into my office, instead of
only 4. And I wish twinax switchboxes came in 6-way, instead of just 2-way
and 4-way. And if wishes were fishes, then Norway would never want for
lutefisk.

--
JHHL

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