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From: stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mike Peltier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: practical details (Thin <-> thick Ethernet)
Message-ID: <4256174a.1b7ec@odin.engin.umich.edu>
Date: 30 Mar 89 17:42:00 GMT
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Reply-To: stealth@caen.engin.umich.edu (Mike Peltier)
Organization: Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Michigan
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> .... 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?
> 
> John Sloan  +1 513 259 1384         jsloan%spots.wright.edu@relay.cs.net
> Wright State University Research Center   ...!uunet!ncrlnk!wright!jsloan
> 3171 Research Blvd., Kettering, OH 45420       ...!osu-cis!wright!jsloan
> Logical Disclaimer: belong(opinions,jsloan). belong(opinions,_):-!,fail.

Some of our Apollo workstations have such a connector for the coaxial
network cable.  Makes moving nodes around  much less of a hassle, and
the connectors aren't that hard to install.  It's just a push and a
twist, and your node is on the net.

	-Mike Peltier
	 (I'll write a .signature one of these daqys...)