Windows 3.11 and 10Base5 connect to the Internet?

[@davidbombal]

Menu: Laptop: 0:00 Network Card: 0:39 Drop cable connection: 1:30 10Base5 Transceiver: 1:58 10Base5 Terminator: 2:18 10Base5 Cable: 2:32 10Base2 Cable: 3:38 Power on Laptop: 3:59 Starting DOS: 4:39 Start Windows 3.11: 5:10 Windows Overview: 5:30 Ping google.com: 6:02 What is ping? 7:08 Ping cisco.com 7:32 Disconnect drop cable: 7:41 Disconnect terminator: 8:26 Network card and working network: 10:20 Windows 3.11 TCP/IP: 11:16 Telnet to Cisco Router: 11:42 Windows 3.11 Network Setup 12:50 IP address, DNS server setup: 13:11 10base5, 10base2, 10base-T cables: 14:24

[@missaklefa7692]

Hi DAVID please tell me if i fail the cisco(200-301) exam to retake the exam should i repay?

[@davidbombal]

@@missaklefa7692 Yes, you would need to pay again to retake a CCNA exam.

[@ShahinHemmati2020]

I think this is the first time in the history of teaching networking that someone is actually showing how an old network looks like. Thank you very much for your effort. 👍❤

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Shahin - glad you liked the video. That was the idea - actually demonstrate how the old stuff worked :) More weird old technology videos coming soon.

[@Fredsch08]

I used to work with and support all of those operating systems, technologies, and devices. Thanks for taking the time to set up an old school network and brought back memories form good old days. Life was simpler back then for sure :)

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Fred.

[@AFSkull]

😭😭

[@troysipple2591]

Holy crap! I've only seen pictures of this stuff in books and videos. This is awesome to actually see how it works.

[@davidbombal]

lol... that is my big goal with these videos - I want to show network engineers what this stuff actually looks like and how it works.

[@jacquesmahoudeaux9783]

Amazing video. I never saw this kind of stuff running before. Thank you for showing this.

[@davidbombal]

Glad you enjoyed it Jacques. I think a lot network engineers today are too young to have worked with this stuff :)

[@craigmurray4746]

The high school I went to in 1999 had 10Mb co-ax (10 Base 2 - it was thin stuff but a bit thicker than the stuff you show in the vid) and 10Mb Base T. I always found the co-ax cable fascinating but so horrible to work with as if one kid slightly twists the T piece off the connector on the network card, the whole segment dies. Not to mention, you then needed a hub that had both that and RJ45 ports. I read about vampire taps and thicknet cabling when I went to go study in college, but have never seen them in real life. Even then, I can only imagine how annoying it must have been to work with such cables, even though they would be professionally laid down in walls, ceilings and so forth. The girth of that orange cable reminds me of modern fibre optic cable which by eyeball guess seems to be about the same thickness with sheath, armor etc. Fascinating video thanks!

[@aurkito]

Excellent Instructor I ever saw in my life

[@davidbombal]

Thank you very much :)

[@simonclayton1148]

"Never have I ever 'seen' thicknet" This great DB, a lot of people within network have never seen this, especially someone like me, 35 years old and I've only seen this "bus" in OCGs.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Simon! This is why I created these video :) I'm glad you liked it.

[@Mabrouk22D]

Amazing to see this stuff in real life again! thanks a lot David 😍

[@davidbombal]

More to come!

[@Whitemountain123]

Wow David, this is awesome.. I have only read them on my ccna exam . I never knew, I will be lucky enough to see them. Thank you for taking your time and making this video. I’m still waiting for your CCNP contents though haha ( to be honest you are the best trainer I ever had ) ... thank you for sharing your knowledge to the world :)

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Shohab! I appreciate your kind words. Thank you.

[@H1ghland]

I rarely comment, but as a current network engineer it's brilliant to see how far we've come

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Rob!

[@georgejungle00]

That video is fantastic. Old hardware I've only seen in books. Thank you very much for all you share with the rest of people, like me. I really appreciate it.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Jorge. So much nicer to actually see this stuff rather than just read about it :)

[@jamesdietsch7868]

Amazing content again David, takes me back to my younger days using telnet on a Packard Bell win 3.11 for work groups :)

[@davidbombal]

Glad you enjoyed the video James!

[@mybluemars]

I love this! Gotta find me some time to watch this series. Thank you!

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Matt!

[@ER_aka_RAM]

Fawesome! You’re a brave soldier Imagine how stoked I was when actually saw a MAU switch in an Atlanta data center when working with IBM, epic! Bring on IPX/SPX 😅

[@davidbombal]

lol... IPX/SPX... not sure I'm that brave! Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@williamshenk7940]

excellent video, it was a blast seeing all of the old technology. Makes one appreciate where we are now.

[@thoufiqthaha5841]

What a giant laptop!. Thanks for the effort you are taking on these old stuffs. Seeing an 80s laptop for the first time. Hope Retro network series will continue. :)

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Thoufiq. I plan to continue this series if people enjoy it :)

[@Nuxi-tv]

This video is historical. This should go on tv all around the world.

[@IPvZero]

This video is both hilarious and brilliant! Really informative - thankfully we've come a long way since then David haha!

[@davidbombal]

Glad you enjoyed it John! Congratulations - I see you have joined CBT Nuggets!

[@IPvZero]

@@davidbombal Thanks, David. Yeah, I have! It's huge for me and I'm so excited - been a long time subscribed, and now a trainer! I've said it before but I'll say it again - you're the man who put me on the automation path and I'm so glad I purchased your course, what a positive impact that decision has turned out to have in my life. I'm sure that course is helping many others around the world too. You deserve all the success you have and then some. Thanks so much!

[@davidbombal]

@@IPvZero Really happy that I played a small role in your success John. But, you did all the work and took the initiative! So congratulations! You deserve all the success you get. Keep going. I look forward to seeing the content you create. From what I've seen on twitter, you are already making a big impact! Well done.

[@Casperr123]

So cool, that brings be back many years, when I had an Intel 386 PC back in 1996, and I have worked with coax and bnc conectors and the same terminators etc... awesome video, thanks.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Peter!

[@AMUNSAMY]

This is why most electrical engineers became Cisco Experts. Great video David! Thank you

[@davidbombal]

Thanks for watching Alvin!

[@jinlouiecorowan6517]

Amazing video David 😍 Really love it 🤩

[@davidbombal]

Thank you so much 😁

[@konstantinosvlitakis]

We were actually teaching these networks back in CCNA version 2.x. Thank you for the nostalgic video David. On these networks I learned my first steps and It was back then when my enthusiasm for networking started.

[@davidbombal]

That is a long time ago :)

[@konstantinosvlitakis]

@@davidbombal We gracefully age whilst always learning :)

[@antonyjackson1301]

Why not David this playlist gonna be more fun like I heard ppl saying "if you want to be a master of anything just trace back to its day zero" and your helping us to time travel to the past for a better experience. Keep up your work David

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Anthony!

[@ravirajh.996]

We should be grateful to the technology for making our lives so much better. Enjoyed every bit of it. Thank you :)

[@davidbombal]

Thank you! And definitely agree - life is so much easier these days!

[@qasimq8]

Waow! Nice effort David. I was reading my course book on Computer Networks in which these thick & thin Ethernet cables black & white images appeared. I thought wait a second, we only know about UTP cables these days, where these thick/thin net came form? Searched it & found your video, really enjoyed the video & totally understand the concept. Thanks a lot.

[@yassirg4365]

My father once told me: "We connected mainframes, computers and terminals with coaxial cables, very thick ones" .. --> I'm like how did that look like :D Now i see how it was... Very interesting! Nice video David !

[@davidbombal]

Thank you for sharing Yassir! Agreed - it's so nice to actually see this stuff :)

[@ganeshg786]

Hello Mr.David its really nice to see these devices. Thanks for your hard work .

[@davidbombal]

Thank you G G. Took me a long time to put this all together :)

[@beanondaddy3397]

Bring back memories, thank you David.

[@99bablefish]

Enjoying the trip down memory lane. As a former Digital Equipment tech that supported BNR and Nortel sites this was a blast from the past. When 10base5 came out, a student in the first training class I took drilled a hole completely through the cable trying to install a transceiver thus destroying the cable :) 10base2 was easier to work with but caused no end of problems because there were so many poor connections. People would also try there own cabling, because they thought it was like cable tv and you could add your own splitters and t-connectors anywhere. You need a Digital Delni to connect all your 10base5 gear. Ethernet Bus networking was such a step forward from all the point-to-point links (mostly DDCMP) between PDP and Vax computers.

[@davidbombal]

Thanks for sharing! I was hoping someone would share their experiences :)

[@rajibbarua8006]

Thank You, David, Really enjoyed it. Was not sure how transceiver, terminator Drop cable work. Just read in the books, guess it, and pass the exam. But saw it today.

[@davidbombal]

Glad you enjoyed the video Rajib!

[@blogcorpo]

What a beautiful class! Thanks for sharing this knowledge.

[@aurkito]

Thanks sir I am always waiting for your videos

[@davidbombal]

Thank you!

[@brett3159]

David, Please keep this series going. More Retro!

[@davidbombal]

Glad you like the video Brett!

[@williamhaddock1838]

lol - I was waiting for the live aid concert to kick :) Thanks David

[@davidbombal]

lol William!

[@kironbest]

I am a person who always likes your video before starting to watch your video lecture 🙂

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Nurur

[@dabona215]

I liked the old stuff. I started learning computers using windows 95 on Pentium 2 .

[@davidbombal]

It's really nostalgic to see some of this old tech again :)

[@Draken155-z1g]

Thank you for uploading this video♥️

[@EricSchwarm]

Nice video! Reminds me of my first home network when I could use the same cables and connectors for computing and ham radios.

[@davidbombal]

That's cool!

[@aj.arunkumar]

I really appreciate your efforts to document this piece of history here in KZbin for posterity. Really awesome stuff. I have a question though, on 11:42 you telnet into the router. But how ? For accessing the router's CLI we need to connect to "Console" port using serial/usb connection right ? But the laptop is connected to the network as a network node... 🤔

[@MrAnik001]

I never seen this thing before, it was totally new to me. Thanks for making videos like this.

[@davidbombal]

I wanted to demonstrate this stuff practically rather than just explain it from a textbook / slides. So, I have built a fully working network to show others how it actually works.

[@MrAnik001]

@@davidbombal this is why you are completely different from others and we love you so much.

[@davidbombal]

@@MrAnik001 Thank you :)

[@kielmoreland7704]

This was awesome to watch; I've never seen this stuff before because when I got my first computer. it was dial-up with Net-Zero (oh yeah, good times). For now on, I'll never complain having to deal cables and cable management again.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Kiel! Agreed - we definitely have it much easier today :)

[@prajwalpokhrel6899]

ping part was fun :) loved the video content.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Prajwal :)

[@gileneo6999]

I have never seen this type of Laptop. That is huge

[@davidbombal]

Isn't it amazing how far we have come with technology?

[@SomeGuyInSandy]

My first IT job was in a company with a fairly large 10B2 network. It was built on the cheap with a lot of twist on connectors. Segments would constantly disconnect due to people kicking the cables with their feet, lol. Yikes, having to deal with hubs and all of that was a chore but I learned a lot and got real good at troubleshooting.

[@davidbombal]

lol... the "bad" old days!

[@Humble_Electronic_Musician]

I don’t know why, but windows 3.1 makes me happy. Probably it’s nostalgia 😊

[@MiekSr]

Now this brings back memories lol. People these days have no idea how good they have it.

[@davidbombal]

lol... good or bad?

[@MiekSr]

@@davidbombal lol = good. I say 'lol' because back in high school we used to work Novell Netware on a I think 10Base5.

[@netzwerk-werkstatt332]

It was very interesting for me. I never saw 10Base5 working in reality. I started with 10Base2 at home, I think it was in 1997/98 and later switched to 10BaseT. In the company where I learned my job, they already had 10BaseT cabling, of course with hubs. At the beginning of my full time job in the early 2000s I worked for years with 2500, 3600, 4500, 4700 series routers.

[@davidbombal]

I think that is true for a lot of us - very few of us have ever worked with 10base5 or even 10base2. I wanted to demonstrate a working network with this stuff so I could show how it actually worked :)

[@waasabbas]

David you are amazing and unique. Really i liked the video.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you

[@ruben8925]

That was fun to watch, thank you very much.

[@davidbombal]

Glad you enjoyed it Ruben!

[@georgemann1059]

Repressed Memories..... thanks for the fun video

[@davidbombal]

Hope it brought back good memories :)

[@georgemann1059]

@@davidbombal both good and bad! Tapping a tap in ceilings with no light and confined areas

[@davidbombal]

@@georgemann1059 lol... sounds like a typical nightmare!

[@isaiasgo1217]

Hi Mr Bombal! This video is awesome! I've never seen this technology in action, please do a new video about programming in those days, I mean, I really wish to see the old perforated cards and mainframes in action!! :)

[@davidbombal]

lol... not sure I'll go that far back!

[@pp-pl2zg]

Wow, great way back peak, Thank you!

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Shimwana. Glad you enjoyed the video :)

[@VijayaBaskarvvk]

I really enjoyed seeing those stuff, and amazed what a built quality..!!

[@davidbombal]

Glad you enjoyed it Vijaya! Agreed - that stuff was built to last!

[@MrM0nKey79]

Like everything else back then. Nowadays things are built to only last as long as the warranty period.

[@jasonstephan4389]

Awesome video David! A disco ball running up top would of gave that video some 70s and 80s retro swag!

[@davidbombal]

lol... my wife would kill me :)

[@amarashfaq8359]

Another great video!! Thank you David :D

[@davidbombal]

Thanks again!

[@Tushartech91]

I really love to see all your videos David, and i always wonder do you buy all those stuff(cables, laptop,NIC card etc) or you borrow it from someone, i too really would like to get hands on this old Retro Devices. Nice content. Keep it up!!

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Tushar. I have had to purchase all this stuff myself which has been a long and expensive exercise. Hopefully some vendors will sponsor or lend me equipment in future.

[@Tushartech91]

@@davidbombal I really appreciate all your efforts to educate young generations like me through your videos, i hope and pray your channel grows a lot, and vendor will start advertising their products through your channel :).. Cheers!!

[@dwnthk]

Old good stuff, and it looks so new.

[@davidbombal]

It has taken me a long time to collect all this stuff :)

[@tenmaxim1904]

Very old stuff))) real retro HW/SW. Nice!!!

[@davidbombal]

Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@tg9460]

Pretty cool. Amazing race to where we are today. Thanks.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you. Agreed - life has changed so much because of technology!

[@zmikund865]

I love this!

[@davidbombal]

Thank you!

[@genetech109]

Hello David, I've been enjoying your CCNA (200-301)course on KZbin. However, after video#23 the next videos are on CCNP (350-401) to make up the total of (48) videos playlist. Please let me know were I can continue (CCNA 200-301) to complete the course. Thank you so much. Learning a lot and having fun doing so. You are an AWESOME TEACHER.

[@MalaiischeIntelligez]

bring back my memory ...cool video like it very much👍👍👍❤

[@davidbombal]

Glad you enjoyed the video :)

[@alexisanyanwu2016]

Great teacher... Thank you so much sir 🙂

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Alexis

[@coenen81]

Fantastic video. I haven’t seen this stuff for ages. Trip down memory lane. On a side note: didn’t F3 get you the last used command? I believe that one worked even back then.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you! I forgot the right command as it has been too long! Should have looked it up :)

[@Arayankodesouth]

this is amazing...! 💥💥😍👌

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Muhammed

[@markmcsweeny1576]

Wow! What museum did you raid? Takes me back, especially your struggles with the cabling. What's next in retro series - IPX - Appletalk?

[@davidbombal]

lol... it's taken me a long time to get all the components together :) Lots of other cool things to share in upcoming videos. I could try IPX / Appletalk... was being lazy and thought I would just use NetBEUI and TCP/IP :)

[@markmcsweeny1576]

@@davidbombal Could be really showing my age now, but Appletalk, IPX and SNA were all in my CCIE lab exam a loooong time ago!

[@Z28videogates]

RG58 and RG8 coax - after you are done with it, you can use the coax for your CB or Ham Radio instead.

[@blendonator]

Didn't F3 work to replay the last command in a dos prompt? I forget if I had to load something in autoexec or config.sys for it, but I recall a loadable or something. Hazy memory! Cool video though!

[@davidbombal]

Thanks! Yea... cannot remember... I'll have to look it up again :)

[@blendonator]

@@davidbombal try "doskey"

Wonderful memories of IT prehistory. I assume that multitasking did not yet exist in Windows 3.11.

[@davidbombal]

You can run multiple applications at the same time. Do you want me to test something?

@@davidbombal Yes. It would be interesting to see. I leave the choice of applications to you.

[@CdnMark]

That was great! Thank you David.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Mark

[@arvindKUMAR1608]

Tremendous efforts sir. Thank u

[@davidbombal]

Thank you for watching Arvind

[@chamsoukharoubi7649]

amzing work david keep going

[@davidbombal]

Thank you

[@Cyber-FrieGab]

This is so much faster than the laptop that I use.

[@davidbombal]

Very sorry to hear that :(

[@khurshidkhandy6622]

Thanks David, much appreciated.

[@juliocesarllumiquingacabez1015]

Great video, it is very interesting material. Thanks

[@davidbombal]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@DarkAngelKitty]

This is really cool! ❤

[@davidbombal]

Thank you!

[@raghuvemulakonda2053]

Amazing video...Thank you David

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Raghu

[@adiflorense1477]

7:44 Sir bombal, in 80s how many people have this stuff?

[@satyamdubey8836]

Loved it! Amazing!

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Satyam

[@Jerrec]

RG213 Co-Ax was used as cable for 10BASE5. I wonder if the standard was developed further, what would be possible to transfer through Aircell-7 or a Ecoflex 10 Plus cable. Later's rated RF frequencies is at 8 GHz. So technically they should be able to transfer 10G. But a variant of this cable tech still is Twin-Ax.

[@mohamedhadjmimoune8665]

Good teacher,I'm just wanna how long does your ccnp course take to finish it and thank you so much

[@davidbombal]

I'm still adding content to my CCNP course, so I don't have a fixed time yet.

[@mhugues1]

@@davidbombal thank you for this huge work

[@mohamedhadjmimoune8665]

@@davidbombal ah okay thanks a lot we are waiting for patient

[@michellapointe9145]

So great to be able to attach an image to vague concepte like base-2 or base-5. Afte seing it, i think i know more about it. Thanks.

[@davidbombal]

An image is worth a thousand words as they say! It just makes so much more sense when you see this stuff in action rather than read about it in a book 😀

[@parheliaa]

Yay! Network Hipster time! Maybe do IPX/SPX next?

[@davidbombal]

lol... I'll stick to Ethernet I think

[@petergjonesaus]

This is awesome.

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Peter. Means a lot coming from you 😀

[@hkchenna941]

Hi David, Would you be able to upload same kind of video using today's networking devices please. Thank you.

[@davidbombal]

What types of devices do you want to see?

[@ArmyK9]

Can you do one on Novell Netware Server and Novell Netware Client connecting from say an NT4 Workstation? By the time I started working in IT, these were extremely rare and I only got to see 1-2 of them in banks. I've never had a chance to see how Novell was setup and works. The world I grew up in was already Windows and ActiveDirectory.

[@samsungemployee5243]

I came to see how the coax 10base2 network should be setup what do I need to make it work

[@imadullah6146]

woow awesome many time i only read about it but never get a chance to get such a live demo once again sir david thank you so much...you are superb.........if we get same demo for serial connection of router now replaced with ethernet it would be great....thanks

[@davidbombal]

Glad you enjoyed it! This is on my list of videos to create :)

[@IvanPepelnjak]

Awesome. Where did you get all that super-old stuff?

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Ivan. Lots from eBay, but I also got lucky and found someone in the USA selling a bunch of components over a year ago. It's been an exercise in patience collecting everything.

[@samsungemployee5243]

But where can i find the router for the coax connection on my network card? And how do i configure this?

[@mountain177]

Where did you find bright orange LMR-400 COAX?

[@BiblicalArchaeologyAR]

Brilliant! Thank you so much!

[@davidbombal]

Thank you!

[@giovanniaugusto2406]

Good stuff, are these Cisco 25XX routers? I used to have a couple for Frame Relay labs. Good stuff maybe I have some still around

[@davidbombal]

They are 2500 Cisco routers 😀 Really versatile devices!

[@SafarovTech]

Thank you. It was so interesting.

[@davidbombal]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@pvasir]

Great video. Bring back old memories with ethernet stuff. Have you worked with Token Ring 4/16 (MAU & CAU) and FDDI.?

[@davidbombal]

Glad you enjoyed the video Parmjit. I was thinking of demonstrating Token Ring and FDDI, but I think that is going to cost too much and be too difficult. I'll probably stick with Ethernet for now unless there is a lot of demand.

[@harrysymeonidis6384]

Thank you for this romantic flashback... I could barely remember PBX networks, manual TCP/IP PSTN, the laziness PPP caused when first out... so many memories back! Btw, doesn't the F3 button repeat last cmd in DOS 6.22?

[@davidbombal]

Thank you! lol... will have to test that... been so long that I cannot remember :)

[@harrysymeonidis6384]

@@davidbombal I think DOSKEY got the job done, however it wasn't compatible with 3.30... it required either 4.01 or 5.00. I'm also stressing my memory now :)

[@saaimibrahim8054]

Hello David, a question about your CCNA course. Would it be ok to watch you videos in the order that follows the blueprint? Would it work that way? I think Wendell odoms book goes that order also.

[@davidbombal]

Yes. You may find that some topics rely on previous topics, but there is nothing stopping you jumping around.

[@michaelanderson7902]

Wow thanks David appreciate it, I was wondering, what do you think will be the main topic in this year's Cisco live?

[@davidbombal]

Thank you Michael. It's going to be interesting. Tomorrow is going to be a good day.

[@politron73]

Wonderful retro network!! Maybe Win 3.11 is too modern for this retro series. It would be great to show dosshell file manager running over ms-dos, to share the old cli experience...

[@davidbombal]

Thanks for the suggestion Jim :) I went easy on myself in this first video in the series - Windows 3.11 and Windows 98 😀

[@politron73]

😄