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Subject: Re: Looking for comments on the 15-pin ethernet connector
Summary: He's gotta be joking about the 15 pin connector
Message-ID: <1333@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 88 02:02:29 GMT
References: <5047@videovax.Tek.COM> <3352@phri.UUCP>
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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In article <3352@phri.UUCP>, roy@phri.UUCP (Roy Smith) writes:
> dmc@videovax.Tek.COM (Donald M. Craig) writes:
> 
> > "I am the Component Engineer for connectors at Sun.  In regards to your
> > question concerning the Ethernet DB-15 [...]  I am not aware of any
> > significant problems with mechanical integrity of the lock, or for that
> > matter with the connector in any aspect.
> 
	To the "Component Engineer" at Sun:  I submit Sir, that you
	must not use your own product.  At Stony Brook we have ~100
	Suns of mixed types and I can attest that the metal slide lock
	causes us NO END of trouble.  

> 	What was wrong with good-old RS-232-style screws?  Or, if they really
> wanted a tool-less installation, why not Macintosh-style knurled screws, or
> maybe even centronics-style wire bails?  We recently got a 3-Com 3C503
	
	I would like to see a connector like the one used on the
	uVAX (?) console cable:  Long screw posts with a knob on
	the end that allows finger tightening of the screw.  I 
	understand that the slide is somehow a standard, but if 
	it "don't work" then fix the bloody thing.

> Roy Smith, System Administrator
> Public Health Research Institute
> 455 First Avenue, New York, NY 10016
> {allegra,philabs,cmcl2,rutgers}!phri!roy -or- phri!roy@uunet.uu.net

					Rick Spanbauer
					SUNY/Stony Brook