AUI cables in UK?

From: meltie <lists_at_microvax.org>
Date: Thu Mar 4 17:42:35 2004

On Thursday 04 March 2004 23:16, Pete Turnbull wrote:
> On Mar 4, 22:57, meltie wrote:
> > On Thursday 04 March 2004 22:41, John Honniball wrote:
> > > meltie wrote:
> > > > Does anyone in the UK or immediate surrounds have an AUI cable
>
> around
>
> > > > that they'd be willing to part with for a small amount of beer
>
> tokens?
>
> > > I can do you an AUI cable, but it'd be a "normal", non-right-angle
>
> one.
>
> > > Let me know if that'd be OK. Send clearance dimensions if you can!
> >
> > After a quick look, it's around 4.2 - 4.3 cm...Is it doable?
>
> There's no way a standard-grade blue AUI cable will turn through 90 in
> less than 15 cm. It might just be doable with an office-grade cable.
> They tend to be thinner and more flexible than the proper thick blue
> ones. Or you could remove the cover and fit a right-angle cover,
> probably. You could certainly do that with an office-grade cable -- I
> used to have one like that.
>
> I seem to remember having a genuine DEC beige transceiver, about twice
> the size of the minature Allied Telesyn ones that are so common, which
> had the AUI connector on the side instead of the end.

Ah well, i'll be going down to the local Maplin* at some point to get the
bits together to make one up, less the special cable-locks...

cheers anyway
alex/melt

*or not, as they're stopping selling components...
Received on Thu Mar 04 2004 - 17:42:35 GMT