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From: jbreeden@netcom.UUCP (John Breeden)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Ethernet UTP to ThinNet device?
Message-ID: <13435@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 15 Jun 90 14:32:24 GMT
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In article <10518@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt4957b@prism.gatech.EDU (BACCHUS,MARK ALAN) writes:
>In article <30802@cup.portal.com> AMillar@cup.portal.com (Alan Millar) writes:
>>I have a question about Ethernet on twisted-pair.  Is there a small
>>device that will convert twisted pair to thin coax (not 15-pin AUI)?
>>
>
>3Com makes a device called a 'Pair Taimer' which does just what you describe.
>It can convert thin coax to twisted pair and back again, allowing the
>workstation to use a standard thin ethernet card.
>

Though this is a good, inexpensive way to connect coax to TP (and I'm in NO
WAY knocking it, it has it's place due to it's low cost), it is not a standard 
and will not function in existing 10baseT environments or with 10baseT products.

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 John Robert Breeden, 
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