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From: ken@dali.cc.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii)
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Subject: Re: How is UTP fault-tolerant?
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Date: 24 May 91 15:51:27 GMT
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In article <886@Emperor.HandHeld.com> jmd@EMPEROR.HANDHELD.COM writes:
>Jazz writes:
>
>While not directly on the topic, AMP's thinnet tap system takes the pain
>out of 10base2 networks. 

One caveat here.  While the AMP connectors are really neat most of the
time, they are fragile.  We tracked a nasty impedance problem down to
an AMP wall connector that had been broken by someone backing a
rolling chair into the plug.

Other than that, I love 'em (I've got 60+ machines hooked up this
way).

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