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From: earle@poseur.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle - Sun JPL on-site Software Support)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Thick or Thin
Summary: Take it elsewhere
Keywords: thinnet, thicknet, costs, transceivers, xcvrs
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Date: 7 Oct 89 22:23:07 GMT
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In article <1989Oct4.153141.19593@rpi.edu> jfinke@itsgw.rpi.edu (Jon Finke) writes:
>It is now standard practice here to replace slide lock hardware
>with screw lock hardware for all installations.  We mostly use
>thinnet, but enough equipment comes through with the DB15s
>that we still convert when it arrives.

Please, people, think about what you are talking about before you post.
There is no reason a thread about Ethernet cabling and DB-15 connectors should
be cluttering up the TCP-IP mailing list (a.k.a. comp.protocols.tcp-ip).
Please take it over to comp.dcom.lans where it belongs.

(We now return you to the "ASCII vs. PostScript" 15-round title bout (^: )

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	Greg Earle
	Sun Microsystems, Inc. - JPL on-site Software Support
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