Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Twisted pair Ethernet, Mounting mounted volumes
Message-ID: <1991Apr21.223849.21607@utstat.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Statistics
References: <1991Apr21.035323.26965@macc.wisc.edu> <481@heaven.woodside.ca.us> <1991Apr21.132909.18543@macc.wisc.edu>
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 1991 22:38:49 GMT

In article <1991Apr21.132909.18543@macc.wisc.edu> anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson) writes:

[quotes previous statement of his]


>>The NeXT '040 boards come with twisted pair transceivers built in.

>Talk about having one's brain in standby!  My office NeXT is
>plugged right into the T-10 net.  What was I thinking?  (Nothing.
>apparently.)  I even wrote that guy a long letter this morning,
>still blissfully unaware of being a dunce.  Shoulda had that nap
>yesterday, I guess.

Ok I'm the guy. Several people have responded to me. One in particular
was most helpful. However, please be patient. This is all new to me.
I would prefer to use what looks like telephone wire( this is what I
take is twisted pair wiring) to go from a MacIIci to a NeXT 040 cube.
The reasons are partially esthetic. Now I'm quite willing to get whatever
board I have to on the Mac side. There are Nubus boards that support
"thin" wiring and twisted pair. I do not care about performance( to a
point). 

Assuming I get a NuBus Mac Ethernet board with a "phone jack" in it, can
I just plug the "phone wire" into the mac and into the NeXT. Software is
another issue which I'll raise at a later date.

I take it there is this issue of a transceiver, which sounds like something
to match impedance. Would this be inside the NuBus card in the Mac, or
would it look like an Appletalk connector at 5times the price? Or, would
I need a "hub" which sounds expensive.

Could someone just explain this in very simple terms please. I seem to be
getting conflicting answers( anywhere from it's impossible to use thin wire).

Philip McDunnough
philip@utstat.utoronto.ca

