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From: jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Connecting a NeXT to twisted-pair
Message-ID: <130050@gore.com>
Date: 13 Dec 89 17:24:49 GMT
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/ comp.sys.next / izumi@violet.berkeley.edu (Izumi Ohzawa) / Dec 13, 1989 /
> I noticed several articles back about a router/bridge
> made out of a cheap PC XT clone + 2 Western Digital Ethernet cards
> for under $800-900.  If this box can have 1 twisted-pair Ethernet
> card and another thin-Ethernet card, it should do the job.
>
> Whoever posted that article, would you clarify this point?

I'm checking it out with the author of PCroute.

You should be able to get a single-port thick-thin repeater for well under
the $2,600 that Robert Powell quoted.  Try Cabletron -- if I remember
correctly, their educational price for one is about $800 (sorry, I have no
clue about the non-educational price).

Jacob
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