3Com 3C644 Token Ring Media Access Unit

Jul 21, 2025 7:13 PM

Good ol’ Broken Ring!

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

For the love of god, kill it, kill it with fire. Think of all the time you can avoid troubleshooting if it is faulty by ensuring it is faulty. If you really want to pretend to troubleshoot the token ring, just walk along a corridor banging a wall randomly.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Probably from the 90s when Token Ring was converted to UTP. I was not aware that 3Com even made TR hardware let alone MAUs.

1 year ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Turn off the lights. If you look very carefully, you can see the token racing through the cables from computer to computer.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I hated having to find the token when it popped out of the ring.

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If you tied a knot on the end of a type 1 cable it would keep the token inside the ring.

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Token Ring. Now that's a name I have not heard in a long time...

1 year ago | Likes 16 Dislikes 0

Pepperidge Farm remembers

1 year ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

DecNet, broken ring, thin coax, thin net, spx, I feel old.

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Oh the days of sneaking around and adding or removing a random terminator to get out of work...

1 year ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Along with NetBeui and IPX/SPX…

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