Interconnecting classic computers

[Fred Cisin]

On Wed, 7 May 2008, Chuck Guzis wrote:
> IR was pretty popular for a short time--you could even go around
> corners if you aimed the transceivers right.  It sounds as if Tony
> just wants to go point-to-point, so there would be only a single
> transmitter on at any one time.

Prob'ly too many corners.
But, . . .   There are some cheap IR repeaters available commercially.
You could mount repeaters on the ceiling, and just beam the IR upwards.

Even an inductive loop ALS would work, but I'd rather not add additional
magnetic fields around disk drives.