Title
Early ethernet transceiver with cableCatalog Number
102803056Type
Physical objectDescription
Early ethernet transceiver with RG-11/U cable.PARC engineers Bob Metcalfe and Dave Boggs perfected a local area network for interconnecting computers together called Ethernet. Using a transceiver designed by Tat Lam, it ran at 2.94 million bits per second, linking Alto workstations, laser printers, storage servers and inter-network gateways, into what Xerox envisioned as “the Office of the Future.”
Date
1973Manufacturer
XEROX PARCIdentifying Numbers
| Deprecated CHM identification number | L2004.4 | Loan converted to gift |
| Other number | 2302 3 | Written in black marker on transceiver box |
| Part number | 209926 | |
| Serial number | 3012 |
Category
interconnect/network/otherCredit
Gift of SRI InternationalLot Number
2024.0009
