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From: goss@SNOW-WHITE.MERIT-TECH.COM (Mike Goss)
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Subject: Re:  Can you use thin wire ethernet to 4D-series machines?
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Date: 28 Dec 89 18:57:32 GMT
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It is possible to hook an IRIS (or any machine with a standard Ethernet
drop cable) to thin wire Ethernet.  Since the IRIS does not have a
built-in Ethernet tranceiver, you need a transceiver with a thin-wire
interface. You would need to purchase a transceiver for each machine,
so this might be more expensive than just using a DELNI or similar
piece of equipment.

We have a installed a Personal Iris on thin-wire using this approach, and
have had no problems.  The tranceiver we used is a "CentreCOM 100 Series"
made by Allied Telesis.  I suspect that there are probably many others
available that would work just as well.
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Mike Goss
Merit Technology Inc.
(214)733-7018
goss@snow-white.merit-tech.com