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From: geoffb@trwind.TRW.COM (G. Geoffrey Baehr)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Special reward for Ethernet xceiver cable designer
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Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 16:04:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep  1 16:04:28 1987
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In article <44078@beno.seismo.CSS.GOV> mo@seismo.CSS.GOV (Mike O'Dell) writes:
>I suspect that many of you out there share my belief that
>if there is in fact any justice in this world, there is
>a special place in Hell reserved for the person who
>design the bloody clip which is claimed to hold a
>transciever cable in place at either end.
>
>What do other people do??
>
>	-Mike O'Dell

Well, we make an 'L' shaped bracket, which we screw into
the holes for the clip, then wire tie the cable to the clip.
This seems to work well, as the clip is 16ga aluminum.

It looks like this:

  ||---------- <-clip
  |
  || <- xcvr cable plug
  |


Hope this helps. Now, what REALLY is interesting is how people
propose to hold the direct xcvr cable receptacle to transceiver
body units (such as DESTA's ) on with ...




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