• Photo of ethernet MAU (media access unit) -- front
    Photo of ethernet MAU (media access unit) -- front
Networking ephemera for teaching demonstrations, part 1
Networking ephemera for teaching demonstrations, part 1
Networking ephemera for teaching demonstrations, part 1
Networking ephemera for teaching demonstrations, part 1
Networking ephemera for teaching demonstrations, part 1
Networking ephemera for teaching demonstrations, part 1
Networking ephemera for teaching demonstrations, part 1
Networking ephemera for teaching demonstrations, part 1
Networking ephemera for teaching demonstrations, part 1
Networking ephemera for teaching demonstrations, part 1
Networking ephemera for teaching demonstrations, part 1
Networking ephemera for teaching demonstrations, part 1
Networking ephemera for teaching demonstrations, part 1
Networking ephemera for teaching demonstrations, part 1
Networking ephemera for teaching demonstrations, part 1
Networking ephemera for teaching demonstrations, part 1
Networking ephemera for teaching demonstrations, part 1

Networking ephemera for teaching demonstrations, part 1

physical object

Identifier
2019.1.138
Description
As assortment of networking cables and devices used for teaching/demonstration purposes. Items include * token-ring cable with active transceivers * ethernet 10-base-2 MAU transceiver * IBM PCNet broadband hub (coax) * cabling samples including thick ethernet (5base2), cat5 twisted-pair copper (10baset and 100baset), copper ribbon (untwisted, used for low-speed serial), rg59/u coax (10base2 ethernet), multi-strand fibre-optic, cat3 (station wire used for telephony and low-speed networking)
Related Term
communications (describes)
External links
Eikipedia entry for IBM PC Net
Specification sheet (pdf)
wikipedia entry for coax cable
wikipedia entry for 10-base-2
Introductory history of networking in the 1980s
Wikipedia entry for cat3 cable
Wikipedia entry for RJ45 connector
Wikipedia entry for token ring
Related people
Trevor R. Grove (was donor of)
Trevor R. Grove (is documentarian of)