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From: hempling@quorum.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Connecting Thick Ethernet to the NeXT
Keywords: how to do it?
Message-ID: <1990Jul1.194133.2889@quorum.com>
Date: 1 Jul 90 19:41:33 GMT
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cjroehrig@poppy.uwaterloo.ca (Chris J. Roehrig) writes:


>We have a new NeXT that we want to connect to the campus Ethernet
>backbone.  We have a 25 meter Ethernet drop in our lab which would
>do fine except that it has a DB15 (thick Ethernet) connector on the
>end.
>    So we need an adapter to go from the DB15 connector to a
>BNC connector -- should be pretty straight-forward, right?

Right. Cabletron sells one for ~ $250. It's a very small box with the
DB15 connector on one end and a BNC on the other.  The official
name on the box is TMS-3 Ethernet/IEEE 802.3 Transceiver Unit (MAU).
   The main Cabletron office is in Rochester, NH. (P.O Box 6257, 
Rochester, NH 03867). The number is 603-332-9400.  They do have 
regional offices elsewhere that can ship the box to you within a
couple of days if they have them in stock. The San Jose office is 
at 2170 Paragon Drive, San Jose, CA  95131. The number there is 
408-441-9900. A fellow there, David Vaiasicca, helped me out. 

Good Luck,
dave
hempling@quorum.com