Re: College Tales...
The first network that I had to put together was based on Arcnet. Pretty much the same coaxial T-piece and termination issues, just with different impedance. It was quite easy to get things to work with active and passive hubs, just making sure DOS had enough memory left to work with took a bit of fiddling with CONFIG.SYS and whatever TSRs we loaded up in AUTOEXEC.BAT to make it work. That 640k may have been enough for anyone, but not us..
When we were quoted silly numbers for terminators (£10 or so, and this is decades ago) I just bought a load of resistors and connectors from RS and spent a quiet afternoon soldering - in those days I actually had idle time (oh, those distant memories).
Biting the hand that feeds IT
