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[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Ah, the good old days of network troubleshooting. Wiggle the cable at the BNC connector until the whole segment comes back to life. Those huge repeater boxes with like 8 ports. Somehow 10Mbit to a Netware server being faster than a local hard drive. Smartdrv fixed most of that though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Not to forget the war cry of every LAN Party:

"Who did not terminate?"