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suboptimal (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 7 months ago by to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev
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[–] 6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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.

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  • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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?

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  • [–] 4 points 7 months ago

    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.

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