How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet

Re:How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet by Waterluvian on Monday April 08, 2024 @04:55PM (#39973613)

> but unlike the extension cord case, nothing would catch literal fire

Somewhere, out there, is a story of an overburdened network setup literally catching fire, and it’s hopefully making its way to us.

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Re:How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet by genericone on Monday April 08, 2024 @05:08PM (#39973735)

C'mon HN, I'm counting on you...

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Re:How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet by djbusby on Monday April 08, 2024 @09:35PM (#39975513)

I saw one sorta catch fire.

But it wasn't over burdened.

It was in the kitchen, cause that was also where the utility closet is. and our 100+ year old building has crappy/dirty power, frequent brown-outs.

So, a few weeks of splashing coffee, tea and other crap around, and our crap power the thing started humming (60Hz). Then one day POP! Cap blew out and there was a little smoke.

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Re:How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet by EricE on Tuesday April 09, 2024 @02:49PM (#39982765)

Seen more than my fair share of magic smoke from lightning or near lightning strikes.

Also fried more than a few ports on devices when passive POE used to be more prevalent :p

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