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- Subject: Re: How to connect Apple LocalTalk cabling w/PhoneNet?
- Message-ID: <zaphod-010992161209@gregt.winona.msus.edu>
- From: zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu (Gregory Talmo)
- Date: 1 Sep 92 16:13:46 -0600
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- In article <1992Sep1.034024.29533@news.stolaf.edu>,
- carlsonb@mari.acc-admin.stolaf.edu (Bradley P Carlson) wrote:
- >
- > Several Macs at my site are connected with Apple's "LocalTalk Locking
- > Connectors," while the rest are networked with phonenet cabling. The two
- > look suspiciously similar, and I'm wondering how hard it would be to make a
- > LocalTalk <-> RJ-11 cable. My only question would be: Why does the
- > Localtalk cable have 3 wires (instead of two)? If this is a fairly easy
- > patch, could someone point me in the right direction?
-
- It can be done, and done reliably. We've got an install here on Campus
- that goes from PhoneNet to AppleTalk that's been running for a couple of
- years.
- However, I don't know what the pin-outs are.
-
- - Greg Talmo (zaphod@vax2.winona.msus.edu)
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