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minus-square@zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilink11•2 months agoThis image triggers me so much, but mostly because it is truer than I want to admit.
minus-square@rumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglish6•2 months agoVGA didn’t care much about interference. Lan party, we didn’t have T connectors, so we cut two coax apart and spliced them with some tinfoil. it worked until someone bumped it hard.
minus-square@ripcord@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink3•2 months agoOmg a 10base2 LAN party. I’m a little stressed thinking about what you even had to do on the software side to get everyone working properly; was it even IP?
minus-square@rumba@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglish4•2 months agoThe game of choice was Warcraft II, so all we needed was IPX, but I had brought over a bunch of EtherLink II cards. Could have done the TCP in DOS easily enough, but with the ‘substandard’ cables, IPX was a lot more performant.
This image triggers me so much, but mostly because it is truer than I want to admit.
VGA didn’t care much about interference.
Lan party, we didn’t have T connectors, so we cut two coax apart and spliced them with some tinfoil. it worked until someone bumped it hard.
Omg a 10base2 LAN party.
I’m a little stressed thinking about what you even had to do on the software side to get everyone working properly; was it even IP?
The game of choice was Warcraft II, so all we needed was IPX, but I had brought over a bunch of EtherLink II cards. Could have done the TCP in DOS easily enough, but with the ‘substandard’ cables, IPX was a lot more performant.