[zabzonk]

My history with networking:

- late 70s, rs232 terminals. well, it kind of worked. i spent a lot of time under the desk

- early 80s, frozen hose ethernet - i remember not being able to get a sun workstation to sit on the desk because the cable lifted it off too much

- late 80s coax ethernet all sorts of termination and other problems

- 90s twisted pair and hubs - things started working as they should.

- a bit later cheap switches came along, but still lots of wires at the desk

- now, wireless bliss.

- don't talk to me about token ring.

But of course I don't do this stuff any more.

[pcdoodle]

Never heard of frozen hose, funny.

I briefly used "thin" coax before the transition to IP cameras, it was a basic NTSC signal into a PCI capture card. 12/24V was pumped over a secondary cable attached to the main coax (siamese)

We were digital plumbers!