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From: eshop@saturn.ucsc.edu (Jim Warner)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Looking for comments on the 15-pin ethernet connector
Message-ID: <3777@saturn.ucsc.edu>
Date: 15 Jun 88 15:26:59 GMT
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Reply-To: eshop@saturn.ucsc.edu (Jim Warner)
Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
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Ron makes a good point.  Most of the problems people experience
with slide latch connectors wouldn't happen if Sun had followed
the specification.  The position of the "D" connector on the
OUTSIDE of the panel is VERY CLEARLY called out in the 802.3
specification.  I claim that no connector system will be satisfactory
if the engineers that impliment it don't read the specification.

What I like most about the slide lock system is that I can get
right angle hoods on the DTE end of transceiver cables.  I can't
see how you could do that with a screw lock system.  

I do keep a small stash of slide lock clips to use as replacements
for the ones that users mangle beyond recognition.  I find that
I don't have to replace very many of them.  I'd much rather
replace a slide lock clip than have to deal with tapped holes
where j-random user has mangled the threads by trying to jam
an English screw into a metric hole.

Jim Warner      (eshop@saturn.ucsc.edu)