Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!mips!sgi!shinobu!odin!sofine.detroit.sgi.com!fine From: fine@sofine.detroit.sgi.com (Steve Fine) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi Subject: Re: Message-ID: <1991Jun28.190606.24118@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 28 Jun 91 19:06:06 GMT References: <9106281336.AA08139@nrc3d.nrc.uab.edu> Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Organization: sgi Lines: 53 In article <9106281336.AA08139@nrc3d.nrc.uab.edu>, jpg@NRC3D.NRC.UAB.EDU (Jill Gemmill) writes: |> |> >The fan noise from my PI is starting to get to me, so I want to |> >put my monitor/keyboard/mouse on the opposite side of my office |> >from the PI itself (which I'd put in a corner with some sort of |> >sound-deadening stuff between it and everything else). |> |> >So ... Are the specs for these cables available (e.g. what type |> >of coax, BNCs, etc.)? If they are, we can have the folks in our |> >electronics shop make us a set at a tiny fraction of SGI's cost. |> |> |> You want: |> 3 - RG58/U coax cables, BNC terminated |> 1 - 15 pin extension cable, male on one end, female |> on the other, point-to-point wiring. |> |> |> 75 feet is an OK length - rumor has it you can go over |> 100. |> |> |> |> |> |> |> |> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |> Jill Gemmill |> Neurobiology Research Center INTERNET: jpg@nrc3d.nrc.uab.edu |> University of Alabama at Birmingham |> Volker Hall G82E PHONE: 205-934-7111 |> Birmingham Alabama 35294-0019 FAX: 205-934-6571 |> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |> |> |> |> |> |> On a PI, the keyboard cable is a 9 pin, Power Series machines are 15 pin. -- ---------------------------------------------------- Steve Fine fine@sgi.com Systems Engineer 313-478-5446 Silicon Graphics Inc. vm 8115 24155 Drake Rd. Farmington, Michigan 48335 (Thats a burb of Detroit) ----------------------------------------------------