It's a good thing I keep track of people I used to work with.
One of my friends knew a friend who heard that the place they worked at was getting rid of some short lengths of Mixed end fiber optic cable.
A week, one photo and a quarter tank of gas later I made arrangements to pick up what appears to be several (more than 15) 20 foot lengths of SC-ST, SC-SC and ST-ST cable next Wednesday.
Since hubs, transceivers and cards are getting cheaper (and since almost all my computers are in the same part of the house) I thought it might be nice to finally upgrade from my tangle of 10Mbit BNC ThinNet, 10Mbit CAT 5e, 100Mbit CAT 5e, AppleTalk and Token Ring to just Token ring (so I can network my old AIX 1.3 box) and Fiber.
The cables I am getting should cover most of my computer room however I'm not going to get all the systems. So far, it will look like I will need seven PCI fiber cards and seven AUI fiber transceivers. If I get a fiber card for the Onyx and the Indy we can take out two transceivers. If I can find two Sbus Fiber cards for the SUN systems, I can take out two more transceivers.
The only systems that I don't think I can network are my macs (both PCI and NuBus) and my Intel (white box) NeXTStep 3.3 system.
The only items I currently have that are related to fiber are two FORE ATM cards for the Crimson and Onyx and a card installed in my Indigo. What do you think?
One of my friends knew a friend who heard that the place they worked at was getting rid of some short lengths of Mixed end fiber optic cable.
A week, one photo and a quarter tank of gas later I made arrangements to pick up what appears to be several (more than 15) 20 foot lengths of SC-ST, SC-SC and ST-ST cable next Wednesday.
Since hubs, transceivers and cards are getting cheaper (and since almost all my computers are in the same part of the house) I thought it might be nice to finally upgrade from my tangle of 10Mbit BNC ThinNet, 10Mbit CAT 5e, 100Mbit CAT 5e, AppleTalk and Token Ring to just Token ring (so I can network my old AIX 1.3 box) and Fiber.
The cables I am getting should cover most of my computer room however I'm not going to get all the systems. So far, it will look like I will need seven PCI fiber cards and seven AUI fiber transceivers. If I get a fiber card for the Onyx and the Indy we can take out two transceivers. If I can find two Sbus Fiber cards for the SUN systems, I can take out two more transceivers.
The only systems that I don't think I can network are my macs (both PCI and NuBus) and my Intel (white box) NeXTStep 3.3 system.
The only items I currently have that are related to fiber are two FORE ATM cards for the Crimson and Onyx and a card installed in my Indigo. What do you think?
![Crimson :Crimson:](../../../static/9de4e2a4-de36-48fc-a247-f670bbc1c527.png)
![Onyx Deskside :Onyx:](../../../static/68e0236e-4e64-488c-a7c0-91076a60fea3.png)
![O2000 Deskside :O2000:](../../../static/4b3398da-2105-4625-b8f1-b811d871a6ad.png)
![O200 :O200:](../../../static/ae377565-efa2-4688-aa3a-3f8786484f9d.png)
![O200 :O200:](../../../static/ae377565-efa2-4688-aa3a-3f8786484f9d.png)
![Personal IRIS :PI:](../../../static/7f8ac1b6-ab77-4bc8-b1be-abd2c80b4c46.png)
![Personal IRIS :PI:](../../../static/7f8ac1b6-ab77-4bc8-b1be-abd2c80b4c46.png)
![Indigo :Indigo:](../../../static/87e9763c-ce73-4d26-938a-4a2b4fe7fce2.png)
![Indigo :Indigo:](../../../static/87e9763c-ce73-4d26-938a-4a2b4fe7fce2.png)
![Indigo :Indigo:](../../../static/87e9763c-ce73-4d26-938a-4a2b4fe7fce2.png)
![Octane :Octane:](../../../static/20ac3a2d-b815-459f-9321-778d81f71231.png)
![O2 :O2:](../../../static/0c7871d0-9389-4bed-bc98-92880c14a0cd.png)
![1600SW :1600SW:](../../../static/f89a8efe-c6ac-4e69-b28c-354d24cc1158.png)
![Indigo2 :Indigo2:](../../../static/b2625cae-9138-424e-9bde-7a4b7dee195b.png)
![Indigo2 :Indigo2:](../../../static/b2625cae-9138-424e-9bde-7a4b7dee195b.png)
![Indigo2 IMPACT :Indigo2IMP:](../../../static/94bfa481-1942-4968-b9bc-067f70ce3c87.png)
![Indigo2 IMPACT :Indigo2IMP:](../../../static/94bfa481-1942-4968-b9bc-067f70ce3c87.png)
![Indy :Indy:](../../../static/551ec4c8-0cfa-4405-b16f-a385b1e1dd27.png)
![Indy :Indy:](../../../static/551ec4c8-0cfa-4405-b16f-a385b1e1dd27.png)
![Indy :Indy:](../../../static/551ec4c8-0cfa-4405-b16f-a385b1e1dd27.png)
![NeXT Cube :Cube:](../../../static/32693fa6-4591-4120-be90-477693430062.png)
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