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From: ron@Eyring.COM (Ron Holt)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re:  An informal survey [slide-locks]
Message-ID: <1991Apr30.010639.1288@Eyring.COM>
Date: 30 Apr 91 01:06:39 GMT
References: <1991Apr23.001727.26953@phri.nyu.edu> <72554@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <1991Apr23.172533.20781@athena.mit.edu>
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In article <1991Apr23.172533.20781@athena.mit.edu> jstahlhu@athena.mit.edu (Julie Kozaczka Stahlhut) writes:

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

His name is Rich Seifert.  He wrote an article for the January 1991 issue
of "Byte" called "Ethernet: Ten Years After".  In the article he discusses
what he and the other members of the original Ethernet design group
would change if they could do it over again.  He says "Personally, I would
have saved every Ethernet user a lot of grief by not specifying the dreaded
slide-latch connector... We really had good intentions.  I was fed up
with the RS-232C connectors that fell off because the tiny screw driver
necessary to tighten them down was never handy.  I just didn't realize
that the side latch was so flimsy and unreliable until it was too late.
Ethernet installers around the world must curse me every day."

Now you know the name to curse :^)

You can e-curse him at seifert@asylum.sf.ca.us
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