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  1. Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!uknet!warwick!cudep
  2. From: cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
  4. Subject: Re: Networking recommendation
  5. Message-ID: <xvfnblph@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
  6. Date: 30 Jul 92 10:56:04 GMT
  7. References: <55590004@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> <1992Jul22.182937.643@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> <1992Jul23.130454.3965@ll.mit.edu>
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  13. In article <1992Jul23.130454.3965@ll.mit.edu> mikem@ll.mit.edu writes:
  14. >In article <1992Jul22.182937.643@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> rmilner@zia.aoc.nrao.edu (Ruth Milner) writes:
  15. >>Join them with a piece of thinwire and terminators at each end. Might cost
  16. >>$25 or so (two terminators, two T-connectors, n feet of coax).
  17. >3/80s don't have internal transceivers, and there's no way to just take
  18. >the 15-pin ethernet ports of the 3/80s and wire them together.  (Are there
  19. >any electronics wizards out there who'd like to say otherwise?  Maybe it's
  20. >possible if you only have TWO workstations?)
  21.  
  22. Is it possible using a direct connection between 2 10baseT tranceivers?
  23.  
  24. >Clearly, Steve Aliamus wants to avoid spending the $60-$70 or so each for
  25. >a pair of ethernet transceivers, or else find a source for the cheapest
  26. >possible transceivers.
  27.  
  28. Back to basics, it never actually said that ethernet was necessary
  29. (though I'd guess it's quite likely).  How about a null modem cable
  30. and running compressed slip?  Definately cheap, but short on bandwidth.
  31.  
  32. Cheers,
  33. -- 
  34. \/ato - Ian Dickinson - NIC handle: ID17                              Yo! Bum 
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