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From: swb@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU (Scott Brim)
Newsgroups: net.dcom
Subject: Re: Office networking ala RS-232
Message-ID: <263@batcomputer.TN.CORNELL.EDU>
Date: Sun, 11-May-86 19:56:11 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 11 19:56:11 1986
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Keywords: patch panel, cabling

In article <11620@amdcad.UUCP> phil@amdcad.UUCP (Phil Ngai) writes:
>In article <532@gould9.UUCP> joel@gould9.UUCP (Joel West) writes:
>>First, how many wires would I need?  I was guessing 6 but a lot of
>>the stuff I've seen suggests 8 (TD,RD RTS, CTS, DSR, SG, DCD,
>>DTR) or 9 (add FG).  I guess that requires 10-conductor plenum.
>>(INMAC, $.95/foot after 100 feet)
>
>You can get by with 6 for terminals and modems (TD,RD,DTR,DCD,SG) with
>the right adapters. I say 6 because we have used 6-wire telephone
>cable, even though I only listed five signals.

Even though in *most* cases you can get by with 6, we now *always* pull
8, having been burned in the past.
						Scott
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