Anyone been in IT long enough to remember these...?

[mrjonesybop]

The Boss and I were checking out an old store in our Humanities department - As a prospective new HOY office; when we came across a few absolute gems... I miss Token Ring...

 

Anyone remember these...?

 

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Sadly, the original Token Ring Switch that was located alongside the bank of converters is long gone.

 

Sorry for the photo quality, sods law states that the only day I need my DSLR I don't bring it to work....

[SYNACK]

We did have a token ring thin-net coax network for a short while but used a hub with a coax point on it to join it to any 'fancy new' gear with ethernet

[mattx]

Oh yes, type one cableing - love it, I worked on a Token Ring network for about 7 years. Worse thing was having floors on different ring speeds..... Used to love those Madge cards....

[mrjonesybop]

It was strangely exciting to find these... (8 in total).

The 6th form class and Latin teacher nextdoor were quite confused by our enthusiasm over, and I quote.. "a couple of bits of plastic"...

 

They called us 'sad' - They are learning a dead language, as we're sad?!?

[mattx]

Here you go - a fine example of LAN gaming before broadband using Token Ring - Dig that MAU !! I'm the ugly one btw.

 

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[mattx]

Those were the days of PROPER OS's !! LAN and WARP server - it's where I learnt my trade. And just think what there were doing back then, 2003 & 2008 server are only doing now !!

Having to manaully write config.sys files and sometimes even drivers for printers...... Not now.....

[jimmy_2k]

hehe we had one of those in the college for show and tell. Haven't used a live one though