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From: haas@cs.utah.edu (Walt Haas)
Subject: Re: thin-net and thick? (HELP Needed)
Date: 15 Jan 90 20:53:30 MST
Message-ID: <1990Jan15.205330.16319@hellgate.utah.edu>
Organization: University of Utah CS Dept
References: <18189@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU>

In article <18189@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> smiller@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU (Steven M. Miller) writes:
>
>We have 1 single HP box that has only a thin ethernet board.
>However our net is a combination of thick and twisted pair.
>
>Question:  What is the quickest, cheapest, easiest way to hook that
>machine into the network?

When we were faced with this situation, the best I could come up with was to
buy a thinnet transceiver and hang it off a 15 pin on the Starlan hub.
Somewhat less than elegant, but it works fine.

Cheers  -- Walt Haas    haas@cs.utah.edu    utah-cs!haas