I used to work in a lab where this stuff was strung all over the place. Somebody would trip over it or dislodge the terminator in one place and the whole thing went kerplooey-kerplunk. Made network admin a real treat (not).
My first computer related job involved running lots of that type of networking with Netware on top. I remember when CAT5 starting becoming popular and telling the boss that looked like a better solution. He didn’t agree. We weren’t in business but maybe another year after that. I still have a handful of those connectors in my networking toolbox that I kept when we shut down.
Oh…good to be able to put a face to the many curse words I threw your way Na, actually it worked pretty well once you figured out how you were going to route the wire.
I rember using the old coax, my boss at the time used to go nuts every day because the network would go down. I kept telling him that he should stop making the cables himself and using a pair of pliers to crimp the BNC on, but he wouldnt listen. I eventually bought him a proper crimp tool for BNC’s
Its amazing especially as we were a broadcast services company and the same BNC’s are used for video coax even to this day.
Just read your Bio too, very interesting read. I bet you have some stories to tell…