From: kr-lund@nogarbage.online.no   
      
   DaveG wrote:   
   > Sometime on Sat, 11 Feb 2006 16:38:07 +0000, Larry scribbled:   
   >   
   >   
   >>Wow, someone who uses thin-net!  Too bad you're not in the US.  I still have   
   >>a spool of thin-net cable, a bunch of BNC connectors, and a couple of   
   >>thin-net cards lying around, including an old 3COM PC-card with dual media   
   >>support.   
   >   
   >   
   > It's not that unusual.  I only upgraded to twisted pair 100Mbps a couple   
   > of years ago here at home.   Our company is in the process of doing a   
   > quote for a systems/network upgrade for a customer still on co-ax.   
   >   
   > Last year I ripped out a load of co-ax for a customer moving from a   
   > managed office suite to one of their own.  I've still got a bin liner full   
   > of co-ax/bnc/terminators around here somewhere along with a small box of   
   > bnc-only and duel media 10Mbps card, PCI and ISA at that :-)   
   >   
      
   Well, it is convenient and some of my older pc's have only 8 bit network   
   cards and these have only thin. It's a kind of legacy thing too. I used   
   to have only thin net. Used it with novell lite in the early 90's. Did   
   use Win3.11 with Novell lite IPX to.   
      
   Even DOS only PC's can easily participate in the network.   
      
   I have lots of the stuff too. The PS/2 with its incompatible   
   microchannel bus did have a network card, but only with "thick". Almost   
   all of my stockpiled spare cards are ISA bus and PCI bus. You don't see   
   much EISA either.   
      
   Sorry for being off topic, but maybe it has some relevance for the Tandy   
   PC clones. I has been kind of a challenge to get all the oldie PCs on   
   the net. :-)   
      
   Knut   
      
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