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From: dave@lethe.UUCP (Dave Collier-Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: the connector is the network
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 6 May 89 08:56:37 GMT
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X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 271, message 1 of 18

In article <2096@lethe.UUCP> dave@lethe.UUCP (Dave Brown) writes:
>X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 246, message 7 of 12
>If you are suffering from the common "Ethernet drop-cable fell off"
>problem, look at the cable-end to see if a flat and lock washer are under
>the **head** of the bolts which the clip clips onto.

In the above article, I implied that the cable was "improved"
ill-advisedly.  I was just corrected: Sun made the fitting the cable
connects to in a non-standard manner, thus requiring the cable to change
to regain the contact depth required for good connections...

--dave (I shoulda guessed) c-b
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