I sold them with the warning, each piece had at least one or two 50 foot sections that had not been 'eaten'. It is fuzzy but I think each section was 200 feet long, the part I remember the most was the weight vs RG8. We are both old :-) -pete On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 6:00 PM, Rex <rexa@sonic.net> wrote: > Many years back I bought a long coil of the orange cable with N connectors > on it at a flea market. Only when I got home did I notice that vampires had > been gnawing on it in many places :-( > I should have known better and spotted the holes. > > I'm pretty sure I know which box holds my vampire tool and a MAU or two, but > I worked for 3Com starting in 86. > > > > On 7/30/2012 5:02 PM, Pete Lancashire wrote: >> >> Weird timing, I was digging through the attic and two weeks ago found >> a box with AMP stinger repair kits, a couple unopened MAUs, >> and at least one said tool or two in the bottom of the box. There use >> to be a few N connectors but I still use them so they ended up in the >> RF connector box. >> >> I use to have a few spools of the cable but one ham radio swap meet >> and they went fast. >> >> One of MAUs is bigger then one of my Linux based single board >> computers with a network jack ! And I bet cost more to buy. >> >> -pete >> >> On Mon, Jul 30, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Chuck Harris<cfharris@erols.com> wrote: >>> >>> Chris Albertson wrote: >>> ... I wonder how many >>> >>>> people here remember the old 10base5 stuff. We used to call it >>>> "Frozen yellow garden hose". It was a perfect description. I think >>>> it was about 1980. And I still remember being astounded when I saw >>>> that a "vampire tap" could work. >>> >>> >>> Or maybe more to the point, I wonder how many of us have installed >>> 10base5 cable, and done vampire taps? I think I still have one of >>> the tools around here somewhere... probably with my G-D wirewrap >>> gun. >>> >>> -Chuck Harris >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there.

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 1:50 AM, Chuck Harris <cfharris@erols.com> wrote: > Chris Albertson wrote: > ... I wonder how many > > Or maybe more to the point, I wonder how many of us have installed > 10base5 cable, and done vampire taps? I think I still have one of > the tools around here somewhere... probably with my G-D wirewrap > gun. In my university years, I had a lot of fun (and a bit of money) with 10Base5 cabling and all the related stuff. I still have some spare transceivers with vampire taps, brand new in their boxes. The problem with 10Base5 was that someone overnight would install his vampire tap on the yellow cable without telling us and often pick an already assigned IP... that would start me on the "find the new tap" game (300m of cable running on a couple of lab and offices filled floors). Those years were fun indeed. Frank IZ8DWF