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From: zlcbeowen@qut.edu.au (Chris Owen)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Ethernet T-pieces
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.095628.19984@qut.edu.au>
Date: 7 Nov 90 14:56:28 GMT
Organization: Queensland University of Technology
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>> Our cabling supplier has supplied us with some odd-looking "T-pieces" for
>> use with 10base2 thin ethernet:
>>      _
>>  +--+=+___+-------------------+
>>  |\\|=|   |                   |
>>  |<>|=|___|                   |
>>  +--+_+   +-+---+-------+---+-+
>>             |   |       |   |
>>            =|   |=     =|   |=
>>             +---+       +---+
>>  
>They should be fine. Just a T with a slightly different shape.
>
>I think they will make a tidier installation, too! Where do you get them and
>MOST IMPORTANT are thay a lot more expensive?

They cost us just the same as the normal ones ... A$5.30.  We got them from

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