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by the_only_law 1404 days ago
Is that the one that used the nasty vampire taps, or am I thinking older.
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-T indicates "twisted pair". Vampire tap was 10BASE5 (later also called Thick-Ethernet, to contrast with 10Base2 "Thinnet" which used thinner coax and BNC T-pieces)
I never saw 10base5 coax, but I worked in a lab in the day with massive thick 15 pin cables everywhere (AUI?), and 4 port hubs (that is combine 4 computers into one uplink that I supposed eventually went to coax in the ceiling, though I only saw it go to yet another such hub. The office was 10baseT already, but the lab had a lot of older computers.
That was 10BASE5 aka thicknet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/10BASE5