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From: jsloan@thor.UUCP (John Sloan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: practical details (Thin <-> thick Ethernet)
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Date: 17 Mar 89 13:35:32 GMT
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From article <18167@glacier.STANFORD.EDU>, by jbn@glacier.STANFORD.EDU (John B. Nagle):
>       2.  The BNC T connector always goes on the back of the computer.
> 	  Don't insert any cable between the computer and the T connector.
> 	  If you do, the network may behave very strangely; some machines
> 	  won't be able to talk to some other machines.
> 
>       3.  Of course, if anyone disconnects a cable from the T connector,
> 	  the whole net goes down.  You can disconnect the T from the
> 	  computer freely, but the cables must remain attached.

Thanks for the information, John. I hear rumors about a thinwire wall
plate that has a special cable containing the equivalent of two thinwire
coax cables, ending in the equivalent of a T-connector. It appears to
be one cable with a thinwire coax connector on the end. When you plug
one end into your workstation, and the other end into the wall plate,
the wall plate automatically "splices" this thinwire extension into
the network daisychain. When you unhook it from the wall it
automatically completes the circuit, so that the network doesn't go
down.

Is there such a beast?

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