Re: [Sheflug] AUI network on a Sun

[Andrew Basterfield <xxxxx [at] xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 08 Dec 2001 10:16:58 +0000
"Chris J" <cej [at] nccnet.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> > Thankyou very much. Do you want a cg6 framebuffer in exchange? (Woo, it 
> > does colour!)
> 
> That sounds fair :) Yes I've had a check and I've found I've got four of the 
> beasts. I think they're breeding, so I think I can spare ye one of them... :)

Excellent. A framebuffer isn't much use to me on a headless machine :)

> Screened cable, but I couldn't say exactly what type. cat5 probably won't 
> work, no :) IIRC the thick-ethernet I've seen has a cable cross-section of 
> that approaching the same of a parallel centronics cable or SCSI-II cable, so 
> its that sort of thing you ought to look at. In fact, if you have a spare 
> parallel cable you don't mind cutting the ends of, one of them should be fine 
> (okay, you'll have a bundle of 10 wires unused or thereabouts) though. No 
> idea how much the cable costs to buy.

AUI uses differential drives so it would have to be twisted pair cable of some kind - the thicknet ethernet cable it was typically used with was coax just like thinnet, that was the other side of a tranceiver though. All purely academic now hopefully :) 
 
> So next question is ... how to do this ... (a) royal mail, (b) shef-lug meet, 
> or (c) other? :)

Are you in Sheffield? If so it seems a waste of postage. Email me direct at bob [at] lostgeneration.freeserve.co.uk to save disinteresting traffic on the list.

thanks

A. Basterfield
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