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Yeah, I was shocked when I first read it, and then reread seeing no G.

I'm not old enough to have liven when 10BASE-T was mainstream.

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Lol these youngsters with their little plastic plugs. 10Base5 is where it's at. Or 10Base2 if you want to be cool.

Intended as /s but I actually still have some stuff here that I need to use a 10BaseT AUI transceiver on :) I love old hardware.

I have a 10base-5 AUI on my desk. Makes an interesting conversation piece now and then.

I’d you haven’t used a drill to attach a computer to a network, you can’t appreciate how easy things are these days…

10BASE-T1 is becoming quite popular with industrial / sensor networks these days.

I remember when 10BASE-T was brand new and hilariously fast and radically better than the clumsy, bulky connectors and cables that had preceded it.

Is that the one that used the nasty vampire taps, or am I thinking older.

-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

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