What do you call that old cabling that had the huge arse connectors...

[Pastore]

The name has slipped my mind. I worked at a health facility a couple summers back and they were converting all of their wiring from this old crap to cat5. It had big black square shaped connectors. What the crap is this stuff called?

 

[PrincessGuard]

Sounds like Token Ring.

 

[Pastore]

http://www.marvic.net/mii98pic/tokenri.jpg

I did a search on token ring and that's what came up, but is there a more technical term for it?

 

[Regs]

Not really. Mostly known as Token-Ring Cable. Rj-45 i guess would be the technical term for the wire.

 

[Pastore]

Alright, I wilst run with that, thanks y'all.

 

[gsellis]

BA cable is Type 1, the BA connector is Type A. The regular connector to the NIC is a DB-9 (with only 4 pins). The newer (that is relative - meaning 1990ish), smaller connector was Type-3 (like RJ-45) IIRC.

Edit - the big ass cable was STP, Shielded Twisted Pair.

 

[Markfw]

It could have been thick ethernet, about 15-25 pins, and about the size of a joystick port ?

Its the connector in the middle of this card

 

[gsellis]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
It could have been thick ethernet, about 15-25 pins, and about the size of a joystick port ?

Yeah, but OP found a T-R pic as second response. I was thinking the old firehose ethernet with bayonets and vampire taps until I saw the pic. That stuff was bigger than RG-8U coax IIRC. There was a big orange cable drop into one of the adjoining offices from the big iron back in 1989.

 

[LeadMagnet]

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