I have 50m of yellow ‘thick net’ cable at home. Red bands every 3 yards where the ‘vampire’ taps were screwed in. I loved the ‘collision detection ‘.

Gary Robinson was part of the “DIX-group” that submitted the “Blue Book” carrier-sense multiple access with collision detection (CSMA/CD) specification. In 1980, when IEEE started Project ...

Collisions may be arbitrated via Carrier Sense Multiple Access/Collision Detection (CSMA/CD), which tells the computers on the network to stop talking and try again at random, usually avoiding a ...