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From: jstahlhu@athena.mit.edu (Julie Kozaczka Stahlhut)
Subject: Re:  An informal survey [slide-locks]
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Speaking of slide lock connectors, does anyone know of a source for those
little screw adapters for them?  Some vendors supply them with LAN cards, but I just need a bag 'o adapters and matching screws.

We have the fiber and 10 Base T network of the future, held together with those
miserable 15-pin connectors of the past.  In the tradition of educational
institutions with lots of equipment but no space, our computer room here at
Harvard Medical School is impossibly cramped.  Five minutes of work on any
connection behind our rack is likely to dislodge two or three subnets from
their connections into our two routers.  I've also had only a minimum of luck
with electrical tape, abusing the latches with screwdrivers, ad nauseam.
Not that the little stamped-metal-and-screw jobbers work that well, but they're
the best of a bad lot as far as I can tell.

Who invented those slide latches, anyway?  I'd like to meet this person,
maybe shake his or her throat ..... :-(

--
Julie Kozaczka Stahlhut
"I'm not especially responsible but it's not my employer's fault."