10base5 (Thick) Terminator ?

[Curt at Atari Museum]

Man I'm getting old.... I used to install that stuff back in 89-91 and 
I've like totally forgotten all about it :-)



Curt


Roger Merchberger wrote:

> Rumor has it that Curt @ Atari Museum may have mentioned these words:
>
>> Ah, I always thought it was because of the pair of connectors you had 
>> to hook up to the 5250 terminals.
>
>
> Googling around, I found a good big picture of a Twinax female->female 
> connector:
>
> http://www.connectworld.net/cgi-bin/iec/fullpic?7gsZHtYu;TWINAXF-F;6
>
> And a decent picture of the associated male Twinax terminator:
>
> http://www.connectworld.net/cgi-bin/iec/fullpic?7gsZHtYu;L0209;28
>
> That's Twinax... ;-)
>
> Quite often nowadays, Twinax is run on pins 4 & 5 of an Ethernet 
> cable, and have a Twinax Balun on either end...
>
> HTH,
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger
>
> -- 
> Roger "Merch" Merchberger -- SysAdmin, Iceberg Computers
> zmerch at 30below.com
>
> What do you do when Life gives you lemons,
> and you don't *like* lemonade?????????????
>
>
>


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