> Irrespectively of the number of participants, there will only be a maximum of 1 terminators available for the BNC network.
Haha, so true! It reminds me of a LAN party we had at a friend's house. We had a bag of spare parts but, of course, the guy bringing the bag was late. This was around 1992 or so, thus before mobile phones and nobody knew anything. Our host (the pr0n guy, but instead of watching porn he liked to put short porn mpgs into Windows autostart of unattended PCs) in desperation soldered a make-shift terminator from parts of his dad's model railroad. I know he used a t-junction, but I don't know how he did it. Took him half an hour and it worked good enough to set up the network (Personal Netware at the time) before the guy with the bag of parts showed up. Quite a feat, and good thing we weren't so much into drinking at this point of time. Later we established the rule that to participate you have to bring one terminator and one t-junction, that fixed that.
That's very impressive. Even with so many spare parts there were always a dud cable in the mix somewhere or someone's computer refusing to recognize the network for some reason.
It usually took a few hours just to set up and get everyone working, then the sharing and copying would start.
Yeah, at one time we had so many t-junctions that we build a 1m tall robot out of them. That was the time where whatever bag you opened you would find a t-junction quad assembly.
Haha, so true! It reminds me of a LAN party we had at a friend's house. We had a bag of spare parts but, of course, the guy bringing the bag was late. This was around 1992 or so, thus before mobile phones and nobody knew anything. Our host (the pr0n guy, but instead of watching porn he liked to put short porn mpgs into Windows autostart of unattended PCs) in desperation soldered a make-shift terminator from parts of his dad's model railroad. I know he used a t-junction, but I don't know how he did it. Took him half an hour and it worked good enough to set up the network (Personal Netware at the time) before the guy with the bag of parts showed up. Quite a feat, and good thing we weren't so much into drinking at this point of time. Later we established the rule that to participate you have to bring one terminator and one t-junction, that fixed that.