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From: bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: practical details?
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Date: 13 Mar 89 18:24:17 GMT
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In article <1718@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu> dick@ucsfccb.UUCP (Dick Karpinski) writes:
>Poor me, the local Ethernet is thick but I only have this here
>BNC connector on the NeXT.  I'm about to order $865 worth of
>repeater from Cabletron to repair this sad condition.  Has any
>brilliant or lucky soul found a better way??
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>Dick Karpinski  Manager of Minicomputer Services, UCSF Computer Center
>UUCP:  ...!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf!dick        (415) 476-4529 (11-7)
>BITNET:  dick@ucsfcca or dick@ucsfvm           Compuserve: 70215,1277  
>USPS:  U-76 UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94143-0704   Telemail: RKarpinski   

Kinetics (of Walnut Creek, CA) has just announced a NeXT board (is
this the first aftermarket NeXT board, by the way?), whose purpose
in life is to interface the NeXT thin-wire Ethernet with the thick-
wire kind.  The list price for this product will be $500, but I
believe substantial University discounts will be available.

There are other solutions which are more cost-effective for
interfacing clusters of machines with a thick-wire backbone,
but D.K.'s message implies that he wants to convert a single
machine.

John Heckendorn
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