This hotel room has a _baffling_ artefact in it embedded in a wall panel.
These are keyboard LEDs embedded in a… wall panel? What _is_ this? What was it?
This hotel room has a _baffling_ artefact in it embedded in a wall panel.
These are keyboard LEDs embedded in a… wall panel? What _is_ this? What was it?
@mhoye there’s a 4-port hub from 1988 on the other end of that thing.
Ok now I definitely need to get a network cable, just to see if something's still living on the far side of these wires.
I mean, there's no chance. None, there is just no way.
But now I have to know.
You have to know that if it’s labelled with these ancient stressed-plastic stickers, this is like seeing a url with a tilde in it. This is where the old magic lives, this is the good shit.
Further: there are three (what appears to be) rj45 jacks under the table, one labelled “data port” and two unlabelled. I didn’t bring a network cable but… I’m curious? I could get one?
Maybe there’s a secret Irish internet?
Oh my god, these are terminal connections.
In the late eighties, - before the PS/2 port existed because also before the PS/2 existed -- IBM Model M keyboards had metal-shrouded RJ-45 connectors that connected to terminals-as-in-dumb-terminals, like the IBM 3101. For a while you could buy adapters that would let you plug the RJ-45 models into PS/2 connectors, but all that's long gone.
These are 40-year-old keyboard and data ports.
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