From dsandler@stardot.com Wed Nov 15 21:21:13 2000
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 16:41:19 -0800
From: dan sandler <dsandler@stardot.com>
To: Justin Osborn <josborn@mbhs.edu>, fogies@mbhs.edu
Subject: Re: Some questions

At 7:30 PM -0500 11/15/00, Justin Osborn wrote:
>  First of all, how much PhoneNet was used at old Blair?  Mr. Hammond showed
>  me a few adapters and talked about it being used some when he got there.

There was a whole lot of actual AppleTalk wiring (the mini-DIN-9 
serial crap).  Not a whole lot of PhoneNet, IIRC, before we moved to 
10bT.  In 1993, when we had The One Mac That Was Connected To The 
Internet, there was a little 10b2 floating around as well.

Worth noting is that before the Internet connectivity, the fleet of 
Mac SEs (and a few choice Mac IIs in the front) in the center lab 
were connected:

(1) by that AppleTalk wiring, to each other and to the file servers 
and to the printers (a LaserWriter Plus and a II, and a mess of 
dot-matrix ImageWriters (GRRRNNNK! GRRRNNK!) for code listings).

(2) by serial cable to massive DEC serial multiplexors that then ran 
into the MicroVAX II.

Man, it was great to rip those serial lines outta there.

-d