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From: ldl@uvm-gen.UUCP (Louis D. Langholtz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: moving CPUs far away
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Date: 23 Oct 89 21:19:24 GMT
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From article <8910201651.AA15183@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>, by swanson@UXE.CSO.UIUC.EDU (Amy Swanson):
> I would like to know if anyone has had any 
> experience with simply moving a CPU about 75'-100' from the monitor and the
> wonderful things I can expect to happen from this.

	We have seperated CPUs from their keyboards and monitors by cables
around 80' long with no noticable effects. However, we did use cables
that have extra shielding, and are thicker (RG-59) but less expensive than
sgi's cables.
	These CPUs are shelved on metal racks from Reliance in NJ. We have
had no problems with them.


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