[rescue] 10base2 Cable

[Lionel Peterson]

Seems to me a BNC male to BNC male cable should work, since you only have two nodes, right? (Decstation to hub?)

If that doesn't work, then add the Ts and terminators. I guess I'm thinking it's like SCSI - you can do a straight controller to drive connection, but when you start adding more drives to the chain you have to add termination...

I dunno, I never had to worry about 10base2 networking, that was just before my time...

Ken

> On Apr 6, 2024, at 22:28, Mouse via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org> wrote:
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>>> I need to get a Decstation 5000/200 on my network. It only has 10base2. I h$
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> If you have a _very_ short connection, you may be able to get away with
> ignoring having proper co-ax and termination and such.  I've had
> thinnet work with two pieces of bare wire as the "co-ax", one wrapped
> around the shells and the other stuck into the centre connectors.  No
> terminators, no carefully-controlled impedance, nothing - while I am
> not an RF engineer, I suspect that, since it was all of about three
> inches of wire, the echos died out fast enough it didn't matter.
> 
> Of course, this is all just "it worked for me".  It may not work for
> you.  (And, I don't know whether the output drivers are short-circuit
> tolerant, but I made damn sure the two pieces of bare wire didn't
> touch.)
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