10Base5/Thicknet (was Re: SUN networking problems)

From: Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
Date: Mon Mar 26 08:23:17 2001

Tony Duell skrev:

>>
>> Wouldn't mind finding a nest of transceiver cables, though. A bunch of
>> mine left attached to SPARC2s and SPARC IPXs because the AT&T transceivers
>> I have

>They are still available, but expensive...

>I had to make up my own drop cable at one point -- the PERQ Ethernet
>connector, while a standard DA15, has jackposts, not that infernal
>slide-lock. So standard cables don't fit.

Jackposts? The kind of posts found on most D-sub connectors into which you
fasten the cable with small screws? A lot of older ethernet equipment has got
that kind of fastening mechanism, such as SMC cards and IIRC 3Com ones as
well.

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