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From: mkhaw@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA (Mike Khaw)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans
Subject: Re: Looking for comments on the 15-pin ethernet connector
Message-ID: <23206@teknowledge-vaxc.ARPA>
Date: 15 Jun 88 18:07:43 GMT
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Organization: Teknowledge, Inc., Palo Alto CA
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- Many of the negative comments seem to involve Sun systems.  While the slide
- latch is a pain, the fact that Sun has incorrectly assembled it just
- aggravates the problem.  The slider is supposed to be attached directly to
- connector shell but Sun seperated them by the thickness of the rear mounting
- panel (on the 3/160 and probably everything else).  The connector shells and
- pins do not completely mate because of this, loosing all the additional 
- mechanical support you should have there and making the connection "somewhat"
- flakey.

Maybe so, but we have problems with these @#$%^&* connectors on our
other workstations as well (uVAXes, VAXstations, Apollos, PCs, etc.).
Sun redesigning their slide latch stuff may help, but the basic latch
design still sucks big.

Mike Khaw
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