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From: phssra@mathcs.emory.edu (Scott R. Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Who sells ethernet cards for a twisted pair medium?
Message-ID: <4833@emory.mathcs.emory.edu>
Date: 6 Jan 90 22:12:17 GMT
References: <6694@lindy.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: phssra@emory.UUCP (Scott Robert Anderson)
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Organization: Department of Physics, Emory University, Atlanta
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In article <6694@lindy.Stanford.EDU> romeo@lindy.UUCP (Patrick Goebel) writes:
>Does anyone know who (if anyone) sells Mac ethernet cards with a
>twisted pair interface?
>
>Alternatively, does there exist an adapter that enables a standard
>thinnet interface to mesh with a twisted pair medium?

I know of no companies that supply the former, since twisted-pair ethernet is
still relatively new.  There are is least one company that supplies the latter,
however:  SynOptics Communications.  We have a SynOptics 2600 Thinnet Adaptor
because NeXT in their wisdom only supplied a thinnet interface.  It cost about
$600, as I recall.

I believe that Farallon Computing also has something along this line.

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