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From: John_Robert_Breeden@cup.portal.com
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: thin-net and thick? (HELP Needed)
Message-ID: <26020@cup.portal.com>
Date: 17 Jan 90 06:33:44 GMT
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>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?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Steven
>-- 

Assuming that your TP complies to the 10baseT draft - 

Most thinnet cards also have a AUI port on them (DB15 connector), if so, just
use a TP AUI adapter (TP to AUI, then an AUI cable to the card). Lots 'o
people make them, AT&T calls it an AUI adapter, UB calls it a TPAU, HP makes
one (I think they call it an AUI adapter too.)

If the card dosn't have a AUI port - this should work too -

A Company in L.A. makes a 10baseT TP to thinnet adapter, just hang it off
a hub port and thinnet cable out to the card.

I don't have the name of the company here, but they ran an ad in the
December issue of LAN mag.