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CloudWatcher

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7. I can recognize most of those!
Mon Apr 11, 2022, 02:14 PM
Apr 2022

Bottom left starts out with a SCSI bus terminator, then an adapter from a normal-SCSI connector to the 25-pin version. Then a DB25-DB25 gender changer, a DB25 to DB9 serial adapter, the serial DB9 gender changer. And a DB9 to Mac serial adapter (din 8, possibly Localtalk or serial). And then the Media Vision joystick adapter I've never seen before

But then there's an old style 10Base-2 (aka Thinnet) Ethernet adapter feeding a odd set of RG-58 coax connectors (and getting smaller/then back to RG-58) until it ends with an BNC to 1/4" mono audio jack.

Sad ... they should have properly terminated the Ethernet bus with a 10Base-2 terminator. It's tough to talk Ethernet packets over audio



Now I have the urge to get my old Mac IIsi (running A/UX) out of storage and see if I can get its Ethernet working on my lan again

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