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I am sooo old, and will never stop living in deep past, when professional Ethernet installations where done with 10BASE-5 and 'vampire' connectors, this new questionable 10BASE-T used something called 'hubs' (several $k), switches did not exist and routers were more expensive than good cars.


Ahh, yes. I remember the first networks we built, with the AT&T 3B2 computers (32-bit!!!) and vaxens - the vaxens had to have ethernet cards with co-procesors, they cost at least 5000 quid... And the wonderful, thick yellow coax cable...