On: Building a 10BASE5 “Thick Ethernet” Network

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I actually ran PhoneNet over my phone lines in my apartment, since it used the two wires that aren't used by the phone. That seemed like a good idea until a thunderstorm took out my laser printer and the serial port on my Mac. Luckily, I was able to repair the Mac, but the printer was toast.

So far as I know, nobody used Apple's cabling.

A well kept secret, Apple sold an AppleTalk adapter for the PC, that worked great.