> On 25 Jun 2021, at 23:31, Grant Taylor via cctalk <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> On 6/25/21 2:07 AM, Adrian Graham via cctalk wrote:
>> Hello folks,
>
> Hi,
>
>> A random conversation on twitter yesterday lead me to discovering an old
>> 1980s LAN technology called INFAPLUG.
>
> Would you mind sharing link(s) to said conversation? It sounds like one I'd
> like to learn from / maybe be part of.
My orginal email was pretty much it unfortunately, since it was borne out of a
thread on Stag PPZ EPROM programmers.
>> This was a serial LAN hooked up via a PC serial port at 9600 baud to a
>> ’smart plug’ the size of a wall wart. This plug contained all the smarts and
>> hooked into the coax backbone. There were boards available for VAX amongst
>> other things so I’m amazed I’d never heard of it.
>
> Interesting.
>
>> Has anyone else?
>
> I have not.
>
>> A small writeup is here:
>> https://archive.org/details/lansexplainedgui00curr/page/64/mode/2up?q=infaplug
>
> ~grumble~grumble~grumble~there goes $14~grumble~grumble~grumble~
>
I wasn’t about to pay up which is why I asked here :)
Cheers,
--
Adrian Graham
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