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From: logier@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au (Rob Logie)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: An informal survey [slide-locks]
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.232806.20982@cheops.qld.tne.oz.au>
Date: 24 Apr 91 23:28:06 GMT
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jstahlhu@athena.mit.edu (Julie Kozaczka Stahlhut) writes:

>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."


The first thing I do when I get anything using AUI cables with slide locks 
is to remve the slide locks and place them in the rubbish bin where they
belong.
I then replace them with normal old screws (Like on RS232 connections)
They never move when there screwed down.

I think slide locks are someones idea of a sick joke ..


Regards


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