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From: hsu@ENEEVAX.UMD.EDU (Dave Hsu)
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Subject: Re:  appletalk connectors
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Date: Wed, 26-Nov-86 12:22:41 EST
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Although I haven't looked, it seems to me that SOMEBODY must carry the
3-pin micro-DINs.

We decided pretty early that the custom cabling kit was just not worth
going for, and also that building little transceiver boxes wasn't for
us either.  And so, we bought a spool of the blue-jacketed Belden twinax
that looked pretty close to Appletalk cable specs (although the Belden
offered better shield coverage; this was NOT the cable that Belden now
sells specifically for Appletalk), a bunch of XLR (microphone) connectors,
and spliced them directly to the short Appletalk cables that came with
the standard kit.  So what we have at each end is...

=====================<>---------[]---------<>======================
Belden           Male  Female          Male  Female          Belden
                 inline XLR's   ^      inline XLR's
                                |
                        Appletalk box to Mac,

Now, why half male/half female on the cut-in-half 6' cable (which is
male/male)?  Some of our macs move around a bit, so at each temporary
location, we left a ceiling to desk drop of Belden with the XLR's
snapped together.  So far, no problems.

-dave