Keeping old tech...

Post #443,221 by static 8/2/23 9:35:15 PM 8/2/23 9:35:15 PM Reply	Keeping old tech... I had a big roll of assorted bits of Ethernet coax for years - my uncle salvaged it from somewhere, I think, and put a heap in the walls of the house he was living in at the time. I don't know if I got the scraps or just collected it myself. Went obsolete so fast... I've also got a highly versatile parallel to serial convertor box I liberated from a previous employer. We used them all the time to run printer services on the LAN as we could run serial lines from the servers a long way. I still don't know why I kept it as I've never used it. Wade.
Post #443,224 by Andrew Grygus 8/2/23 11:09:19 PM 8/2/23 11:09:19 PM Reply	I use an Ethernet to Parallel converter. My two dot matrix printers are too old to have an ethernet port. They will be in use for many years yet, as they are very lightly used.
Post #443,225 by static 8/3/23 1:47:03 AM 8/3/23 1:47:03 AM Reply	These hail from the heyday of Banyan VINES. :-) The bank I worked for had a modest (~30 servers) Banyan VINES network and most of the printers were connected to servers. But server-connected printers were not ideal as some sorts of maintenance required rebooting the server. Banyan later introduced a thing called "PC Print" so you could use a random networked PC as a printer server. This was much better and these serial-to-parallel converters started being disused. :-) Wade.
Post #443,232 by altmann 8/6/23 5:55:17 AM 8/6/23 5:55:17 AM Reply	Re: Keeping old tech... I think I still have a Bernoulli Box (one of the smaller 44MB cartridge models) hiding in the closet behind a box of random tangled cables and other ephemera. It would have moved twice with me since it was last used.
Post #443,235 by Andrew Grygus 8/6/23 1:22:14 PM 8/6/23 1:22:14 PM Reply	I have a double Bernoulli Box It's in the huge mound of electronic waste waiting to be hauled away. It was given to me by a tax preparer in lieu of payment. Never did work for that guy again. Tax preparers are really cheap. Doctors, at least, will eventually pay you. Lawyers, of course, never pay, "So sue me".

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