Just in case you wondered
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I remember paying thousands of dollars for a minicomputer ethernet card.
Before ethernet there were serial (RS232) connections with twisted pair cables, and parallel port connections. Both were a beast to use.
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Yes forgot twisted pair 232
I was with apple then and we had apple talk on phone line type sockets
You had to unplug if running some apps as it checked the network to see if another copy of the same software was running and using the same security key. Which occasionally happened if we got the numbers wrong in install
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Yeah - and then if you wanted to run TCP/IP on top of ethernet - you had to purchase a TCP/IP “stack” from somewhere (some were ridiculously expensive, several hundred dollars!)… But some NIC card vendors started providing rudimentary TCP/IP stack - and - Novell Netware client would let you run TCP/IP alongside IPX for no extra cost… But then - Microsoft released the TCP/IP Add On for Windows for Workgroups 3.11… Nearly ALL of those TCP/IP stacks, including Microsoft’s own were based on the BSD TCP/IP stack…
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