[HECnet] Ethernet Marks 40 Years Linking People, Computers in a Wired World

[Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-]

Gregg Levine <gregg.drwho8 at gmail.com> writes:

On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Brian Schenkenberger, VAXman-
<system at tmesis.com> wrote:
h vlems <hvlems at zonnet.nl> writes:

Yes, an H4005 was shown but no H4000

I've got some here if you want to see pictures of them.

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Hello!
(I did not see the fact that the original thread was cross-posted to
the TUHS list as well as this one, until after the fact.)
Now that I'd be interested in seeing.
It happens that a shop in Manhattan was collecting and attempting to
sell large quantities of Ethernet hardware. And I was the only buyer.
It annoyed them that I was both the only buyer and the only one in the
space who knew what they were.

I wasn't feeling ambitious enough   to trudge out the whole lighting "kit
and kaboodle" <http://tmesis.net/Photography/Ummagumma.JPG>, so I took a
few photos on the kitchen table with the 50mm f/1.2 using the available
light from the kitchen window (not much since it's raining).   That 50mm
f/1.2 is very good in low lighting but it also has a depth of field that
is thinner than rice paper, so the bokeh is quite evident in the photos
I took.   I would have needed the lighting kit to use any of the macros.
I hope to someday build a light box so that I can do proper photographs
of kit like this.

So, here are a few photographs of some original Ethernet (10base5) bits
I have here --   Etherpipe, AUI cables, and h4000s and h4005s.   I put the
camera away before I'd realized that I'd not photographed the tap tool.     
I hope you won't be too disappointed in that. 

http://tmesis.net/10base5/

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Well I speak to machines with the voice of humanity.