MBP Pro Looking for 10GBPS hub with a few USB A ports and a RJ45, that’s it.
I found some but they have like 8 or 10 ports that I do not need (like VGA or HDMI). Others are only 5GBPS. And the hubs that support Thunderbolt 3 or 4 are above what I want to spend.
Any tips?
MacBook Air (2020 or later)
@ChangeAgent, I just saw you wanted 10 gigabit ethernet. That is going to be a bit more expensive, and chances are you are not going to have any USB-A ports.
Until USB4, you would not have been able to drive a 10Gigabit Ethernet adapter using USB signals, as at best you could only get USB 3.1 gen 2 at 10gigabits and that would not have taken into consideration the lost of some bandwidth for USB protocols, leaving you less than 10Gbits for Ethernet.
So you need Thunderbolt at 20 or 40Gbs. And that already ups the cost.
Maybe now that USB4 is standard, and the PC industry will start adapting the standard, it is possible some USB4 10Gbs Ethernet adapters will appear.
But until they do, I think you will need to pay for the more expensive Thunderbolt 3 adapters, which run in the $200'ish range and generally do not have any extra ports on them, unless it is part of an even more expensive Thunderbolt dock with lots of other ports.
I could be wrong and there is a vendor making exactly what you want, but I think I'm correct in the pricing. Expensive.
PDP-8 was the first computer I actually touched. We had 2 of them in our college lab. 4K of 12-bit memory (I still have the programming card and the DEC PDP-8 manual). First you toggled in RIM, then you loaded BIN from a paper tape, then you loaded your program. This was on a TTY at 10 characters/sec.
When I worked at UNIVAC, I worked on card reader/punch hardware diagnostics. It is so much fun watching a 2,000 card/minute card reader have its timing off, and cards missing the turn and shooting out the side, slamming into the device next to it (the covers were off so they did not all jam up inside). Very loud 😆
If I recall correctly, I also used a 4k model and later a PDP-8E which I think had 8K (so much for folks who complain that they only have 8GB of DRAM). I had forgotten that you needed to load a paper tape program before loading your own program. I remember writing a hangman program. :-)
As for cool machines, I loved the punch card sorter. One windy day, I was walking across the university campus when I dropped a box of punch cards. Thank goodness for sequence numbers and the sorter!
P.S. I also used a GE/PAC computer which had an incredibly large 32k memory (actual magnetic cores). If I am not mistaken, the IBM System 360 (which served the entire university community) had something like 2 MB or core memory.
Thanks.
Was looking more for a X-port USB 3.1 (Gen 2) including a GigE port
Morning Bob.
yes you are right in the pricing department. I suspect I will settle for a slower solution. However thanks for your explanations. much appreciated.
ah the good old days...
My Lisa used to start with floppy disks. Till I got a very heavy hard disk, not sure how big it was, but heavy.
I think the capacity of a 5 1/4" floppy was something like 140k (somewhat less than my current 500GB external SSD which is about the size of a thick credit card).
It was 3.5" 400K floppy. later we where pretty happy as the 800K came.
Ah, yes. I remember those discs from the first 128k Macs in 1984. I have fond memories of using the Mac for the first time.
MBP Pro Looking for 10GBPS hub with a few USB A ports and a RJ45
