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From: gnu@hoptoad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Cheapernet Help Needed
Message-ID: <2249@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Thu, 4-Jun-87 06:23:38 EDT
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.2249
Posted: Thu Jun  4 06:23:38 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 6-Jun-87 06:19:07 EDT
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In article <234@srs.UUCP>, lee@srs.UUCP (Lee Hasiuk) writes:
> 3) Will Cheapernet cable work with the old style 3Com 3C100 (black brick)
>    transcievers.  Of course, I will have to use N to BNC adapters, but
>    do I need to use a special type?

Yes, it works fine; I use a brick to connect Hoptoad to Polliwog (our
sun-3/50).  Be sure to buy the N to BNC connectors from an electrical
supply house rather than from an "ethernet dealer", they will cost you
$1.50 rather than $30 apiece.  Ditto the terminating resistors, which
handily can be bought mounted on BNC connectors...

Cheapernet is certainly one of the better networking ideas.  I've heard
that cheapernet is what Xerox's Ethernet was like before DEC got
on the bandwagon and bulletproofed all the specs.  Of course, nobody
shoots bullets at Ethernets...

(posted from the only house on the block with a LAN -- I think!)
-- 
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