The ware for January is shown below.
Thanks to my buddy Mike Fitzmorris for contributing yet another wonderful ware to this competition.
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Fiber optic Ethernet transceiver with AUI attachment. Not sure on specifics.
Okay so that’s a fibre optic port, but that’s a 15 pin d-sub at the back of the second pic so I’d have to go along with the AUI ethernet idea. I’ll plump for it being a fibre optic ethernet converter.
Way too complex for AUI to fibre.
Some kind of a measurement device? Not complex enough for a fibre gyro. Distance sensor?
Chipcom ORnet fiber optic transceiver. Possibly 9301T
Oooh, that looks to be right on target!
Especially the location of the DIP switch & green LED.
It sure looked like a fiber to AUI converter. The number of pins on the assumed D-sub port and the HP part numbers on the left connectors support that theory.
The blurred chip labeled F08023.1 L1A3719 is a custom part from Chipcom.
A Google image search of chipcom fiber transceiver or chipcom fiber converter returns plenty of images that resembles this product.
Bang on the money I would say…
http://www.surpluseq.com/image/data/chipcom-9301t-st-0-ornet-fiber-optic-transceiver-251670-b.jpg
.. and a bit of background about “Mr Chipcom”…
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/032513-held-268051.html
… polishing fiber by hand… now there was a thankless task.
Looks like a 10 Mbps DIX to fiber transceiver
Looks to be from the early 90s from the date codes.
Does anybody actually use 10Mb ThickNet for anything, anymore?
Looks like a some kind of coaxial to serial adapter
Could the port on the left be a power lug? That was my thought when I saw it (pre-split hp product). There would have to be another lug under the yellow (they are typically side by side), and possibly a signal generator (or something else controlled by the dsub).
Maybe it isn’t a lug (there aren’t many things that fit a single lug and the lack of switches/knobs on the same panel), but that was my first thought.
ORnet Fiber Optic Transceiver (fibre AUI converter/transceiver with 10 Mbps)
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