We built the house that we currently live in during 1993. At that time, I had arranged to have 10 data/telephone outlets installed in various locations in the house. I basically copied what we had done a few years earlier at Wesleyan in the student dorms. It consisted of one telephone connection, one for AppleTalk network (remember that?), one for Cable TV connection and one for Ethernet connection. I hired the same contractor who did the wiring for Wesleyan to do this work at our home.

All the wires were patched into a punch down block in the basement, clearly marked so that I had a good idea of which connection is punched down where. To date, I have confusion when I see “North Wall of Bedroom 2”. I have to orient myself with Route 81 that runs North/South and is parallel to our road 🙂 I had a network hub that I purchased which created the local area network. We had multiple computers and I would create connectivity between them to exchange files, share a backup disk on one machine, a printer to which which we could print via AppleTalk etc. etc. It was a bit too early for home internet connectivity at that point. So, the connectivity was through the modem and there was always a fight for who gets to use them – between my wife and me.

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